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Old August 9th, 2005, 06:54 AM
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Question HTML Tables Reducing Search Engine Rankings
Is it true that if your sites layout is made with HTML tables search engines won't list it as high in searches?
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The whole argument is that CSS keeps the content seperate from the styles/layout of the page. That way, the spiders spend less time sorting thru code, and more time looking at content (which is 'king').

However, provided you're fairly efficient at using table-styled layouts, you should be alright.

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evenstar7139,

If you create a fully browsable HTML version of the site and let the search engines index that, always putting a link, I think SE can list it as high in searches.
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The idea behind that statement is that if a spider only grabs the first 1000 (example number) characters, a table-based layout, especially one with many nested tables, will use a higher percentage of those characters on HTML table markup and less on actual textual content. It's pretty easy to see:
Code:
table-layout 
<table>
  <tr>
    <td>Content</td>
  </tr>
</table>
Code:
non table-layout 
<div>Content</div>
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Hmm. Do META tags really do any good when it comes to search engine indexing?
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Hmm. Do META tags really do any good when it comes to search engine indexing?
No, not with any "good" search engine. As was mentioned, "content is king".
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Yes I agree that the content is diffinitely the king and probably the SE is queen.
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