Anchor links in nested tables

Hi

Is it true that Google doesnt catch links that are in after the 3rd nested-table ?

I also read that having a page with <tables> replaced with <div> would be crawled better.

Thanks

 

interesting consept anjanesh.... This is something I'll have to look into my self.. With html changing and the search engines always changing their algorithms.

 

Thats not true. Google can read tables fine.

 

No, that's not true. You wanna make sure your pages are W3C-compliant whenever possible, though, for best results. Also there's lots of spider simulators on the Internet that'll show you what bots actually see on your pages.

I don't know for sure, but I go with DIVs instead of tables whenever possible. Cleaner code, looks nicer.

Warkot

 

Can you name a few like dead-links ?

 

The service you are talking about is a broken link checker tool, if I recall correctly. Spider simulators are a different story.

Some URLs of the spider simulation tools:

http://www.webmaster-toolkit.com/search-engine-simulator.shtml
http://www.webconfs.com/search-engine-spider-simulator.php
http://www.seochat.com/seo-tools/spider-simulator/

Warkot

 

Thats correct - I was looking for spider simulation tools.

But none of these spiders you've mentioned crawl the entire site. It just spiders for links in the url we mention.

 

I'm sorry, I'm not sure we are on the same page here.

Can you describe exactly what you need? What is your objective?

There are tools called search engine simulators designed to allow us to view our pages thru the the bots' eyes and see if all the text and links are being seen and therefore indexed by the SEs.

There are also Website crawlers, and that's yet another story.

I'm afraid I disagree. Take the second one, (webconfs.com). It spiders an URL you specify, shows you the text a spiders digested and shows you the harvested URLs that you can use to navigate to other pages, again, seeing things as spiders see them.

Is this not what you wanted or did I get it wrong?

Warkot

 

I want the entire tree structure - that'll go through all the links that it has found from the given url - recursively.

 

Then I guess you'll need some kind of a Web crawler software...

Warkot

 

Somehow I was expecting Google's site:mydomain.com to show the same links as spidered by dead-links.com.

 

No this not true. Google is the only search engine only search engine that indexes nearly everything.

Akash Kumar