Archive for August, 2006
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Css Design Vs. Table Design - Effects In Seo
An Interesting discussion happening in High Rankings Forum
A member named WD-SEO asks
In the last couple of months I’ve working a lot with CSS. Thanks to this technology, I’ve been able to improve my designs and literally think out of the box. However, I haven’t started a SEO campaign with any of the CSS Designs.
I couldn’t help thinking about the early days of SEO when there were all these theories that help you structure the content with tables. One of the old myths, which I still believe, was that the more complex the table structure of the website is; the more difficult it is for the search engine crawlers to find the information. There’s where the old concept of SEARCH ENGINE FREINLY DESIGN comes into the picture.
One the top competitors of the company that I work for has a SEARCH ENGINE FRIENDLY DESING. By this I mean, a very simple three columns, no rows, no inside tables. The information is displayed in the simplest way ever. This is certainly a concept that I disagree with. My designs are well structure and apart from being pretty and catchy to the eyes of future clients the do rank very well in the search engines. So you guys may be asking your self, what’s my problem?
My problem is that even thought I rank in the top ten for almost the 75% of all the keywords that my competitors has also targeted, they are always on the top. These guys have no clue whatsoever of good SEO, the stuff keywords everywhere in their pages; however (and here comes my theory), because the fact that search engine Crawlers/bots do not have to spend a lot time drilling the table structure and they find the information right there, the crawlers rank my competitor faster and better. On the other hand, my design is excellent, well table-structured but the crawlers have to go down a couple of levels into the structure to find the information, I’m always behind my competitors. I know that even though many of my clients design to buy the products that we sell, the fact remains the same, who’s on the top is more visible; therefore, it has a bigger chance to sell more.
Now the real question and juice comes along:
What would happen if I provide the search engines with the same design, not table structured anymore but CSS. Since CSS and Content work separately but are joint to together by the code, maybe the crawler will not have to struggle with the structure, find all the information right away and rank me better.
Rand (SEOMOZ) replied back
Tables vs CSS makes no appreciable difference from everything I’ve seen WD.
Sure there are rare instances where the table code is so bungled that the content can’t be crawled, but that’s another story. If you had valid nested tables and valid css you’re not going to see any difference in rankings because of the coding methods used.
There are a ton of good reasons to use CSS. SEO is not one of them though.
here are some more replies to this topic
Are there then problems with tables and crawlers finding the content?
No. And there have never been problems, if the tables have been coded correctly.
The problem has never been Tables, just shoddy coding. Tables just got the blame.
Check the discussion here - Css Design Vs. Table Design - Effects In SEO
WorkFriendly!!!
I just got to admit this is one of the most interesting site(s) i have come across in the recent days.
Its called WorkFriendly.net (http://www.workfriendly.net/) Type in any URL and the site will appear in a new window, formatted to look like a Word document.
Woman forces US record industry to drop file-sharing case
A group of US record labels agreed to drop a music piracy case in the US after the alleged file-sharer argued that it could not be proved that she downloaded any illegal music. The case may set a precedent that undermines scores of other music piracy cases.
Tammie Marson of Palm Desert, California refused to pay the initial $3,500 demanded by a group of record labels and opted to fight the case in court. Marson and her lawyer Seyamack Kouretchian of Coast Law Group argued that the fact that Marson’s computer contained illegal music files downloaded over her internet connection was not proof that she had committed a crime.
Google Adds Malware Warnings
Google now shows a warning when you click on certain potentially harmful search results. For example, when you search for list keygen mirc and click on the first result, instead of the target page you’ll see this (Google links to the StopBadware.org initiative, which it also sponsors):
Warning - the site you are about to visit may harm your computer!You can learn more about malware and how to protect yourself at StopBadware.org.
Suggestions:
• Return to the previous page and pick another result.
• Try another search to find what you’re looking for.Or you can continue to http://asta-killer.com/list.html.
advisory provided by Google
Source: Google Blogoscoped
Virtual Tour of Yahoo HQ
yep,
Yahoo! has recently started a Corp Blog and they have a nice Virtual Tour of Sunnyvale headquarters.
check it out - just navigate to the middle of the page to see the Tour.
I love the Datacenter and esp the Cafeteria 
All Packaged Information is Garbage
Interesting post from Aaron Wall here
http://www.seobook.com/archives/001768.shtml
check it out.
MSN Crawlers Christened
MSN has named their crawlers.The MSN Shopping bot is msnbot-products.
The MSN News bot is msnbot-news.
The MSN Image Search bot is msnbot-media.
The MSN Search bot is still just plain msnbot.
Shady Google Toolbar feature has a bug
Shady Google Toolbar feature has a bug by ZDNet’s Garett Rogers — A feature in the newly out-of-beta Google Toolbar is being considered shady by some people. Enabled by default, this feature blocks any attempt by the competition to modify your default search in Internet Explorer. I could only imagine the headlines if Microsoft tried to do exactly the same thing.According to Google Blogoscoped, there is a [...]
Scientist see invisibility in the future
It’s unlikely to occur by swallowing a pill or donning a special cloak, but invisibility could be possible in the not too distant future, according to research published on Monday.
Harry Potter accomplished it with his magic cloak. H.G. Wells’ Invisible Man swallowed a substance that made him transparent.
But Dr. Ulf Leonhardt, a theoretical physicist at St. Andrews University in Scotland, believes the most plausible example is the Invisible Woman, one of the Marvel Comics superheroes in the “Fantastic Four”.
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