What's this all about??

A small group of developers within the International Web Developers Network decided to create a test environment to determine whether words can be indexed given various methods of presentation. We set up 15 test cases (14 and a control), each one varied slightly from the others.

If you came to this page by way of another page with a numbered list and a bunch of gibberish on it, you've already seen those test cases. If you haven't seen the actual test page and you're interested in doing so, view it here. If you view the source on that page, you'll see more clearly what we're testing. Compare the source code to the testing key below, and this will make more sense. All of the "words" we are testing have been searched in Google, Yahoo and MSN to ensure they are not already indexed.

The Key

The word "and" is used within some of these because search engines tend to ignore it as a common word. Here's what's being tested thus far:
  1. Text inserted as innerHTML.
  2. Text inserted using document.write
  3. Title text for a generic element.
  4. URL text for a link with no linking text.
  5. Title text for a link with no linking text.
  6. Rel text for a link with no linking text.
  7. URL text for a link with linking text present ("and").
  8. Title text for a link with linking text present ("and").
  9. Rel text for a link with linking text present ("and").
  10. A div hidden using visibility:hidden.
  11. A div hidden using display:none.
  12. A word written using HTML decimal entities ("&123;").
  13. A word written using HTML hexidecimal entities ("a").
  14. The text within an anchor tag's name attribute.
  15. Control word. No special formatting or delivery.

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