I'm VERY newly learning about SEO and how to get my sites up in their rankings; those of you who are experienced, can you tell me this..

what validity is there to the idea proposed in one of the earlier posts' newsletter (yep, I went to the link to see what was there) that your site ranking can be affected by "hiding" some html code for the search engine spiders to see?

There are so many "tricks" that I've been reading about and I'm curious how many of these actually work and how many of these are just wishful thinking?

Thanks for your comments. I read a lot of the posts here and you gave me some terrific ideas to follow up on.

Cheri