SEO Question
 

Does it still hurt you to use tables on a page?

I know at one point that text inside of a table was considered less relevant than text that wasn't in a table, but I don't know if that's true today.

Can ya help a brutha out?

I wouldn't do anything new with tables :2 cents:

use css. best way

the more code you have vs. text = not good, hence why CSS is so great...You can put one little line of code representing a shite load. For tables, you have to put the same stuff on each page, making it look "cluttered" to Google.

I actually don't like CSS because SE's don't really know which of your text is given priority. There's plenty of ways to represent large text in CSS but in standard html, a header tag (h1..h6) is really clear that the text in that tag is really important. CSS, Google might miss that detail.

As for tables, I've always used tables without problems. I think its more the font tags, size tags, header and title tags that tell google what's more important on your pages.
WG

I actually don't like CSS because SE's don't really know which of your text is given priority. There's plenty of ways to represent large text in CSS but in standard html, a header tag (h1..h6) is really clear that the text in that tag is really important. CSS, Google might miss that detail.

As for tables, I've always used tables without problems. I think its more the font tags, size tags, header and title tags that tell google what's more important on your pages.
WG

I still use h1-6 tags in css all the time. Just because you use css dosnt mean you have to forget about SEO essentials. If anything, CSS can help you hide the outstanding info to the surfer but make it very relevant to the SE

Theres nothing stopping you from using that along with CSS instead of tables.

Unless you're concerned about the size of the page a bot is going to hit... there is NO relevant difference for SEO.

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tables are fine, just dont use tables inside tables inside tables.

look at the code yourself... does it confuse you? Then it probably will to Google. Worst case is you dont want them to think you are trying to "fool" them by laying tables over tables and hide text. make your HTML as clean as you can

Very True, i don't Think Google gives less or More Shit, İf You Using Tables, Frames or Something Else, it's all about if You work Clean or not or if You don't even work Clean, pretend Like You're clean with CleanCoding at Least.

SE's just don't care... they care about the content on site not technology used to create the site.