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Originally Posted by dozey
What makes you think crawlers go looking for tables or any other code for that matter? if I were a crawler I would go looking for <div>contents</div> <p>contents</p> etc. I highly doubt they take into account whether you have nested nested nested tables or not.
A html document is going to look more like a big ascii soup to a crawler, tags don't mean anything code wise.. you could probably nest a <a href> in a heap of dody / unclosed tags and they would still pick it up. They just know particular (simple) tags may contain text.. and some may be more relevant than others.. <h1> <h2> etc |
I never said they look for code or tables, for that matter. On the contrary they dont want to see a load of shit. It is far more logical to parse nice light code and pick up the relevent text and possibly give extra consideration to tags that do make a bit of difference than. Nobody said any css/xhtml tags themselves bring benefits to your page they simply facilitate a superior style of coding.