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I am not sure that it helps rankings yet, but it cannot hurt them and it will help at some point in the future. As search engines try harder to understand what sites are about, using contextual markup will help. These changes to HTML and also the schema.org rich snippets will be used in future and will help. SEO is evolutionally as are development practices and it is all about staying ahead of the competition when search engines change the playing field. I do know following the guidelines here, getting strong relevent links built and ensuring a fast user experience helps rank on sites we built. Does it give us an advantage oer the competition? Maybe, only time will tell.

thank you for that. i am going to send a number of articles to free article sites but it is trying to find a good article site to do this. in the past when i have done this i have found that many people use my articles but they never put the link to the article to my site which is a big let down.

I have done this article and have taken on board what has been said but what i am doing is trying four different ways. so on this one i have got rid of the adverts at the top and sorted out the side but i have included in the body of the article google adsense. i will do another article and move any adverts to the bottom right. and then i can compare them all. here is the content. http://www.in2town.co.uk/Top-Celeb-News/Kerry-Katona-Homeless-Shock

Hi Diane, based on your initial questions and sub-questions, I would recommend you to: a) prepare a comprehensive 6 or 12 month Internet marketing and/or SEO plan. b) get help on executing the plan if needed. Without taking a comprehensive (big picture) look at your online strategy, your success will be very limited. I'm afraid that your questions may be very narrow and you may be missing the big SEO picture (example: concentrating on 1 keyword too much) I hope this helps. Best, Ogy

hi thanks for that. i have now dealt with a lot of them through htaccess and directed them to one page. what i may do in the future when i see that they are no longer bringing traffic is allow google to delete them. what i have found is they are bringing in traffic which i am surprised at. they were from a component i had which was a kind of message board

I was thinking of the same exact page to post in reply when I scrolled down to find that you'd already posted it. This is dead on. I absolutely can't wait for search engines to stop placing so much emphasis on domain keywords. I can't tell you how many times I get the dead fish stare from a client when they learn that their business name that they've had for 25 years is NOT the best domain name for their business website.

Diane I think this post by rand is exactly what you're looking for. -Dan