Did you also know that besides indexing general textual content that it also indexes text in HTML comments? So if you have HTML comments in your web pages you shouldn’t be worried too much about them being just a waste of web space and traffic. But you do need to separate items on the page and make sure that you have everything labeled perfectly. You can use an HTML Editor to do this for you, but have a look at the following examples;
Let’s say that the comments in your web page and they look like this:
<!– Start of my image gallery –>
<!– End of my image gallery –>
These comments will be indexed by Inktomi and a user searching for a web photo gallery should be able to see the image gallery in their search results. The SEO effects from HTML comments is really small since the above search sites occupy just a tiny fraction of the search market. However it doesn’t hurt keeping the HTML comments in your HTML code especially when these comments contain meaningful text
