{"id":640,"date":"2019-03-05T12:13:43","date_gmt":"2019-03-05T12:13:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.suvaance.com\/microblog\/?p=640"},"modified":"2019-03-18T11:45:09","modified_gmt":"2019-03-18T11:45:09","slug":"google-on-keyword-spam-in-css","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.suvaance.com\/microblog\/google-on-keyword-spam-in-css\/","title":{"rendered":"Google on Keyword Spam in CSS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Often it has been noticed that webmasters are in a dilemma about how search engines like <strong>Google<\/strong> consider <strong>keywords<\/strong> in a <strong>CSS<\/strong> file as id or class names. Recently <strong>Gideon<\/strong> on Twitter asked <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JohnMu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">John Mueller<\/a> about <strong>keyword spam in CSS<\/strong>, \u201c<em>is it worth cleaning up and does Google ignore it?<\/em>\u201d.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet tw-align-center\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Correct &#8212; we ignore that. Use IDs &amp; class names however you want. (I&#8217;m pretty sure this never had any effect on any search engine.)<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 \ud83c\udf4c John \ud83c\udf4c (@JohnMu) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JohnMu\/status\/1101934572235866112?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 2, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>In its reply, John said, \u201c<em>Correct\u2014we ignore that. Use IDs &amp; class names however you want. 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