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Originally Posted by FlexxAeon
i hate to jump in this argument but...can an SEO expert answer me this? this is what i was told by an SEO guy...
of course, a SE can read through and understand and differentiate between tables & text. but, i was told that amount of characters was also something to consider. especialy when your site is first getting crawled. because there is a limit to the amount of characters/data on a particular page that an SE will crawl through and store in it's archived data. Therefore, the less code needed to format, the more actual text gets stored. this is why you sometimes see those crappy sites that use formatting from HTML infancy do well in SE's.
is there any validity to this?
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That idea is correct, they do read X amount of data - including html/css, but I think it ignores JS and header stuff.
That's the basic idea of css over basic html, less bytes used so more text and links, menus, ect are looked at vs. trash that does nothing.
However, by using a mixture of tables and css, you can keep the byte size just as small and sometimes smaller, than going pure css and pretty much always going pure tables.
The confusion is tables over css is better for reading, space, bw, whatever - is just wrong. That is all up to the designer/creator.