On one of my sites, I use "Second Tier" pages (one link from home page) to categorize "Third Tier" pages (destination pages). On those category pages I have links list that point to those content pages. After testing with different design of those category pages, I see that best from usability is current design. I use table and write links in rows and have two styles for every second row so color of row is different (as I said, I found this best for usability). How this looks, you can see on picture below (please don't comment colors and other similar stuff, it is not important in this thread, and I know how it seems to look). The code used for this is below: <table width="50%" align="center" border="0" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="2"> <tr> <td width="40%" class="tabela-linkovi-prvi-red"> <b>Name</b> </td> </tr> <tr> <td class="tabela-linkovi-parni-red" width="40%"><a href="http://www.example.com/category1/page1" class="menu">Page1</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="tabela-linkovi-neparni-red" width="40%"><a href="http://www.example.com/category1/page2" class="menu">Page2</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="tabela-linkovi-parni-red" width="40%"><a href="http://www.example.com/category1/page3" class="menu">Page3</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="tabela-linkovi-neparni-red" width="40%"><a href="http://www.example.com/category1/page4" class="menu">Page4</a></td> </tr> </table> Code (markup): Why I opened this topic, are some things I found by exploring my statistics. I found that many visitors come from serps for keywords which are used on those content (third tier) pages (in title, h2) and are used on anchor text in category pages, and because they come to those category pages, not to content pages. This can be seen after searching for those keywords in search engines. I must note that those content pages are indexed and that for same type of keywords people visitors come directly to some pages. My question is how I can make my list more "crawlable", or to be precious, what is best code to use for making this kind of lists? I found three ways: current (with table), unordered list (though I don't know can I make those looks with that) and simple code (using <br /> for line breaking). What are your experiences with this? I'll appreciate your help. Thanks in advance.
i suggest Go for unordered list for left menu and Keep some of the landing page links in row as main menu on top. So that user will find easy tto naviagte through site as well as crawler. It works foe my site
Thank you very much for your answer, but I must confess that I didn't understand it. What left menu and main menu? Can you give me link to your site where I can see it?
Well forget about left menu right menu, what Steve meant is that tables should be used for tabular data and not basing your site on tables. Either way, for listing links I would advice you playing around with unordered list (<ul></ul>) and the reasons are two. 1). Because its a list of links/pages so list should be used 2). because the source code will be much simpler.