Do style sheet names matter?

[jcrawford]

Hi everyone,

Do any of you create your pages using CSS? I Like how my pages
are much cleaner and smaller without a bunch of font tags, etc.

You can name each "style" you use anything you want. I read about
optimizing all the time, but I have never seen anything about how the
name of your style effects ranking.

For instance, on my redwoods page, I named the style for the text
"redwood." If you look at my source code, this tag is in about 20 places
<span class="redwood"> Think it makes any difference?

http://crawforddirect.com/redwoods.htm

[rmjvol]

The last 10 sites I've done are all css, table-free layouts. I sub out all the development work so I can't help with tech stuff. If you want to see the code, one of them is .

My reasons for going pure css were many. Primary was to improve the code to text ratio and reduce page download time.

If you put on your "pretend to be a SE engineer" hat, I don't think you'd try to use classes to improve your search results. In general, visible text on the page has always been a better indicator of relevancy than the non-visible stuff.

So using a keyword as the class might help a tiny, tiny bit but I can't imagine it would be significant.

Good luck,
Ross

[sugarrae]

[Sharon & Roy]

[jcrawford]