hello just wanted to ask how does a tableless div based website will help you rank better then table based website?
Well, There are only reason that table, flash and PHP websites are taking much time to get ranking on SERPS compare to static site because crawler are facing problem when it crawl the that kind of website.
okay i also heard that Google will update you content more faster if your website is in DIV, but updating depends on the crawl rate whether tableless or tablebase?
Html code is not the only factor that google takes consideration, but it's a important factor... div code is more friendly than table td tr things, which google also perfer
Having used both for over 6 years, there is no SEO advantages to either technique (yes, I know about the programming advantages). What DIV allows is the use of CSS, well so does TABLES, so what is the difference? Number of characters use in coding or an important "Text To Code Ratio"). The more sparce the code is, the higher it will rank. Just a note: I use TABLEs and beat DIV designs all the time. I'm a programmer who is skilled at SEO, so I make the code small and very clean. Is this a TABLE vs. DIV issue. No. Good programmers make for better SEO. And as for Google, they don't care one way or the other.
incorrect google prefers neat and tidy markup that validates, thusfore giving a slight preference to sites that adhere to these guidelines. outside the terms of SEO, DIV markup has more benefits than table design than i can even begin to list.
table or no table, there will be no difference. i c some comments above suggesting W3 validated sites getting ranked better which is also not true. i have seen plenty of sites dont pass the validation but ranks high for some very competitive keywords
I agree with you here! A good programmer always prefer to work on creating better codes, they also dont' care about SE's stuffs too. And i have several instances where heavily coded sites [full use of "tr" "td"] ranked well in SE's without any problem.
Yeah, that’s true. Use of table doesn’t affect your SEO work rather what can affect is contents, links and keyword density. Try to avoid Use of java scripts
I agree with Abhik, if you optimize correctly I have seen no problems. The only advantages, which is a good advantage, is that you can place text closer to the <body> tag, which is an advantage for SEO.
No it doesn't. Search engines care about delivering thier searches to the best results. Searchers don't look at html code. Going tabless (or more accurately, with an external css design) saves bandwidth and helps with page load - but it should affect rankings at all. As for the validation part, sure it's good to validate when you can... but I doubt search engines care. In fact, Google doesn't validate... so do you think they care?