Will using CSS help my SEO?

Hello all,

My website doesn't use CSS. I wrote the site as an amateur html user with no knowledge of CSS. Now I'm getting to grips with html and SEO, would re-writing my site using style sheets help. Will search engines appreciate the 'neatness' brought about by using CSS?

Any help appreciated.

 

Definitely Yes....

Check this out - hxxp://www.cssnewbie.com/4-ways-css-can-improve-your-seo

I hope it will help you. I read that also and its great

 

Thanks for the link - looks like it will be a great help. I don't really know a lot about CSS yet so it looks as though I've got some reading to do!

 

Great read, I'm currently learning CSS and can't wait to apply it with SEO.

 

CSS is so cool. If you're like me and you like to change things on your site, you can make a quick change to your stylesheet and tweak fonts, colors, link shades, etc. It's really great. Also the search engines appreciate the least amount of code possible on your pages and all the style info relegated to the css stylesheet, so it definitely improves SEO. Also the load time for users can be faster, which of course helps everything.

Dan

 

I'm currently learning CSS too and that certainly helps

 

The only thing that CSS Style Sheets do to help SEO is to reduce the HTML character count. This improves the "Text To Code Ratio" of a page.

Anyone that is in the SEO community and not using CSS will not be very competitive.

And to help the conversation, how many ways are there to use Black Hat CSS to improve their rankings?

 

Keeping your code clean will make it more indexable and give it better load time. You will improve your code to content ratio, especially if you quit using tables.

 

I put all my CSS into an external file then reference it using the LINK tag. That way Google won't have to scroll all the way passed all my CSS before getting to the actual content that I want them to see.

Also from an organization/maintenance standpoint, you should use external CSS/Javascript files minimize redundant coding.

 

Thanks for the info, and for making this thread. I've always wondered if CSS would help.

Cheers

 

Well, I've got to grips with using an external style sheet and it's much easier than I thought it would be. It really cleans up the HTML and has allowed me to get rid of a lot of repetitive or unnecessary code. Also, as stated above, changing a font type, size or colour is so much easier. I can highly recommended it if you haven't implemented it already.