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Originally Posted by fallenmuffin
I hear it a lot. Blog after blog, tip after tip. Pure CSS is the way to go for good SEO (I think that rhymed). I have many websites, 28 I think. Most are Pure CSS (tableless designs) with much thought to div order. Some have tables but highly rely on CSS. Those sites rank pretty well.
However, my best ranking site. #4 out of 8 million results, #2 for another keyword out of 7.5 million results is old school HTML. I'm not talking HTML 1.1 I'm talking big fucking heavy HTML. Font tags around every thing. Tables out the ass.
I put more effort in SEO into the CSS sites then I do this one. Not over SEOing it at all. I just pick my keywords more carefully for anchor tags, which sites I allow to link me etc. This one I'm pretty picky on who links me and where my traffic comes from but I don't care what the anchor text is...
Debate.
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I do not give a shit about CSS for SEO purposes.
When I had the top spot for my old celebrity site, it equated to a few hundred referrals a day. Maybe a thousand at it's peek on a daily basis.
I had many more coming from my other traffic sources that I had more control over in promotion efforts, and cross linking.
Was it nice? Yes. But I never gamed the SERPS. Just ended up there. On two other sites, I am still page 1. It equates to about the same, and I have never done shit to gear them for SEO.
If you do your updates, and a few other minor things, SERPS will take care of themselves more a less. CSS or not. I've had CSS and html both page one.
