: Do CSS class names have any effect on SEO? Possible Duplicate: Is minifying id and class names a bad SEO practice? I have seen some of our competitors using keyword rich CSS class

@Dunderdale272

Answer: Do not use custom CSS class names for SEO benefits.

Many modern search engines will not be looking for keywords within your tags - imagine the miniscule percentage of websites that actually customize their tags to cater for search engines and how much unnecessary work would be required to implement tag-crawling as a result.

Instead, make sure to use standard tag names such as a, ul as much as you can without having to result to CSS tricks. These will make your site much easier to crawl, indexing many more pages as a result. Make sure to use heading tags (h1, h2 ... hn) as much as possible over custom CSS font tags as search engines will make sure to emphasize these results later.

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@Sherry384

Google says nothing about that.
The more important things are page structure (correct tags, H1 for headers, sections, etc..), metatags and urls.

The google prefers sites that loads fast, that have good structure and descriptive urls.
You should focus on that.

More info here: support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=35291

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