Paz
05-16-2006, 07:07 AM
Hi,
If you're doing SEO, you're probably already aware of the importance of having your optimised text content as high as possible in the HTML code.
The problem is that by the time you've included your logo, your header, left hand navigation etc the search engines will have to trawl though a lot of HTML code before they can get to the juicy text content that they love so much.
If you're doing CSS, then it's easy to manipulate the position of a div on a page, but if you don't yet want to learn CSS and are still using tables to position your text, then here's a old SEO tip for you:
Make a table 100% width, and nest your content and navigation tables inside it.
Write the content table first (75% width), and make it right aligned.
Underneath (in the code) put in your navigation table (25% width) and leave it with the default alignment. When you look at the page, the navigation table will appear nicely on the left hand side, but as far as the search engine bots are concerned the content appears at the top.
The seo table trick uses nested tables, which aren't best practice because they can cause slow page loading times. These days though vistors are using more and more powerful computers, and the extra load caused by nesting tables, as shown here, shouldn't affect page download time.
If you're serious about doing search engine optimisation though, you should probably start learning CSS!
Cheers,
Paz.
If you're doing SEO, you're probably already aware of the importance of having your optimised text content as high as possible in the HTML code.
The problem is that by the time you've included your logo, your header, left hand navigation etc the search engines will have to trawl though a lot of HTML code before they can get to the juicy text content that they love so much.
If you're doing CSS, then it's easy to manipulate the position of a div on a page, but if you don't yet want to learn CSS and are still using tables to position your text, then here's a old SEO tip for you:
Make a table 100% width, and nest your content and navigation tables inside it.
Write the content table first (75% width), and make it right aligned.
Underneath (in the code) put in your navigation table (25% width) and leave it with the default alignment. When you look at the page, the navigation table will appear nicely on the left hand side, but as far as the search engine bots are concerned the content appears at the top.
The seo table trick uses nested tables, which aren't best practice because they can cause slow page loading times. These days though vistors are using more and more powerful computers, and the extra load caused by nesting tables, as shown here, shouldn't affect page download time.
If you're serious about doing search engine optimisation though, you should probably start learning CSS!
Cheers,
Paz.