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Originally Posted by Jace
the only issue I have run into regarding this is when there is too much code on the page.....like for instance you have 10 lines of meta up top and a bunch of needless code....you wanna optimize your code so there is as little as possible, which is why it is good to have a css file that isn't included with your main pages, it is a seperate file called from the main pages
too much code is bad, but I personally don't think se's care which you are using when it comes to div or table
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Yeah, I'm using css as much as possible. I looked at the source of some of my competitors and noticed that alot of them are using a load of meta tags which just seems spammy to me. And they use that robots, index, follow crap too. Presumably that's bullshit and un-needed.
I was thinking about it from the SE's point of view. Since the www is getting bigger and the amount of information to spider and index is getting bigger exponentially, sites which are too 'spammy' (ie. too many meta tags, too much 'spider-friendly' text saying essentially the same thing over and over, etc) will have to be penalised in favour of sites which are linked to freely by people who want other people to have the same 'web experience' that they have had and who want to offer others help in achieving whatever it is they want to achieve, by pointing them towards genuinely user-friendly sites. It's in the SE's own interests to offer better targeted front page links because they will lose market share and $$$ if the front page is full of crap, which I've noticed has been happening lately.
I've also been creating sitemaps which I intend to submit every 6 months or so per site and for the larger sites, have a sitemap on the site itself. The sitemap links should contain the desired keyword phrases.
URLs should contain the desired keyword phrases too, so classic_italian_cars.html is better than page2.html, etc.
Sorry if this is all obvious, but I'm a n00b at this.