is this site SEO friendly?

Discussion in 'SEO' started by ludwig, Oct 1, 2006.

  1. ludwig

    ludwig Notable Member

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    #21
    thanks for the info, maybe that is what I really need, I need to review the documentation I just downloaded and see what I can do
     
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    irka Well-Known Member

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    #22
    I say using DIV or TABLE are the same, you got an example here of site using strictly <DIV>: http://www.irkawebdesign.com and another one strictly using <TABLE>: http://www.irkawebpromotions.com. The only difference is that <DIV> are way much appreciated on yahoo than google, while google loves more <TABLE>. The real secret is to mix <TABLE> and <DIV> together.

    Also CSS doesn't have anything to do regarding SEO, CSS is just for the user browsing the site, not for the bot. So i say avoid using tricky techniques with CSS because thats useless, the bot will see it. Also the fact that people will not be able to see javascript and CSS relate to Accessibility and not SEO.

    And yeah avoid frames find a way to fix that, though don't worry, there are many sites out there using frame and i'm certain googlebot finds a way to crawl frame websites :)
     
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    #23
    When I said use CSS and don't abuse tables, I wasn't talking about SEO, I was being serious.
     
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    #24
    Thanks for cheering up, I have both TABLES and DIVs

    THE SAME THING AGAIN

    THERE ARE NO FRAMES THERE, PLEASE READ THE THREAD
     
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    #25
    Look, forget about search engines altogether. You're not developing sites for search engines! Besides, they change their ranking algorithms at the drop of a hat anyway; so forget about them entirely.

    Concentrate on making clean, meaningful, semantically appropriate code. That way you will please everybody without having to worry about anyone in particular.

    Meaningful code means using table tags to mark up tabular data, and not using ANY elements or attributes specifically to effect* layout. Layout is effected by CSS, which is why I mentioned it. Again, this has nothing to do with SEO, it's basic site design principles, which is the first thing you should get correct.

    I don't like the concept of SEO at all, it distracts from getting the fundamentals correct, as is made evident by this thread.


    * effect, not affect.
     
    penagate, Oct 8, 2006 IP
  6. ludwig

    ludwig Notable Member

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    #26
    I think you are correct. I am not into making sites for SEs but sites for visitors and its the problem of SEs to have quality search results and not our's

    Thus, I'll validate my HTML and CSS and see what happens, cause I did my best to have a nice outlook and use less code. I guess I need to go over it again :)

    Thanks for your support
     
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    #27
    Eeeeeeeexactly! Now that's the right attitude. :)
     
    penagate, Oct 8, 2006 IP