Absolutely. My entire site is formatted with the bulk of the text within a big table cell (<TD>), and it's 100% indexed by the major SE's (and ranked highly asl well!) cheers LC
if you view the source on the page...the crwler can see anything that is there. if you don't use <iframe> crawlers see it all
Interesting point about IFRAME's... I don't use them, but would a spider treat an IFRAME reference like a regular link? Anyone use IFRAME's and can provide info about how (if) the SE's crawl them? LC
I'd like to hear opinions on using tables vs CSS for webpage layout. I've heard that SE's favor sites done entirely in CSS. Maybe because there's less code to parse and more content?
The good thing about CSS is that you can separate the style from the content. So the SE just reads the important stuff. You can also play around with the layout and put the code you want the SE to read first at the top.
What is the compatibility of doing pure CSS for layout when viewed by an older browser (ie version 4)?
Ive read countless times that where your content is located in your document has no bearing whatsoever on the SE. Top or bottom, doesn't matter.
Interesting... I thought there was a general consensus that text towards the top of the page was weighted as more important than text at the bottom. Just going on what I've read, so you could be right. Now that I'm typing this, it does seem somewhat odd to assume that text at the beginning should somehow be more important than text at the end...
yeah, if you have a search around (i dont have any direct links atm) but people have actually tested the theory, moving their content around in the source code, but it made no difference.