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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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I wrote tubecgi ok. It crawls hosted galleries just like a search engine.
It dose not have, I did not write and I did not care if the gallery has tables or css.
It has nothing to do with the crawl.
A search engine crawl looks for text that is not included within tags
( > hello < )
Notice how I don't even give a shit what tag it is.
The search term for that page is now "hello".
It's not "<center><font style="someshit"> hello </font><center>".
or "<table><tr><td> hello </td></tr></table>".
It's just fucking "hello"....no matter what.
Understand?
Why is it "hello"?
Because it's the only thing on the page that is
not html!
Nobody is searching for your html so neither is the SE.
HTML is
not content.
The SE is looking for your content!
It then looks for "href=" to find links.
It then looks for "<img" then the very next "src=" to get the images.
So where is the fucking table???????
Only idiots care because they don't know how any of this works.