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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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No there is no validity to this argument, I read about that shit myself because I found it hard to believe. The fact is the Spiders will crawl in the site searching for content and they do not read tabled data or CSS as "Character's" for indexing. This argument is a wide spread claim that is completely 100% false.
THis claim spread out from none other than the CSS developers themselves and it holds not an ounce of truth.
Spiders are made to parse out layout elements and absorb actual content. Table information and CSS information style elements are all ignored.
Though some SE's do read Image Alt tags as content it is separated from the content formulation of a page separatly.