jumpenjuhosaphat

Using a table to create page layout could confuse SE's. To a search engine, each markup tag has it's use, in the case of tables, the use is to display tabular data....

Something else that I've seen is the use of heading tags to give emphasis or draw attention to some text...also an SEO no-no...The heading tags are intended to be used to help define the structure of a document, much like in a table of contents or an index.

Does anyone else have any examples of where improper use of a tag can effect SEO?

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Bagi Zoltán

I hava two good examples here. First is the <title> tag. Many webmaster place a list of keywords, keyphrases and in some cases it may help diversifying the keyword baskets, but i doupt that would increase the traffic from the search engines since a list of words i separated with commas not so convinceing so i won't click on it. The other one is the alt tag of the images. Some days ago i watched a Matt Cutts video about the proper use of the image alt tag. He warmed the webmasters that 6-7 words MUST be enough to describe the image, so there is no need for list.

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sheena

Improper use of meta tags or tags can mislead search engine for irrelevant search that might cause improper listing of your website. If your site have no page title and no description , it might harm your ranking. It is better to have a different title on every single page.

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jumpenjuhosaphat

I saw that video too Bagi. It's interesting how many webmasters miss the use of the alt attribute but still manage to stuff their text with keywords...

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sheena

You are right jumpenjhosaphat. Not only webmasters but SEO Expert, they miss the use of alt attribute unless the keywords is not ranking. Using of "alt attribute" is an alternative description of your images and use an opportunity to remind everyone on what images is all about.

http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/matt-v...es-for-images/

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jumpenjuhosaphat

Thanks for the link Sheena....at first, it might seem as though the video won't tell you much, stick it out, it's a good watch.

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hasan_889

Sometimes I'm confused when people say DIV is more SE friendly than TABLE. My question is why?

I believe if we use TABLE tag properly, pages would be SE friendly in same rate. We have to maintain the W3C standards.

In Matt Cutts video, he was talking very basic SEO tips, though lot of people miss these types of tricks and spend lots of money buying links and SE submission.

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jumpenjuhosaphat

I think that people who say that use of the <div> tag is more SE friendly than use of the <table> tag are trying to say that the improper use of the <table> tag is bad for SEO.

It's not bad to use the <table> tag, but if you use it improperly, it can be. It became a very common practice to use tables to layout the look of a web page, in that case, using <div> would be more suitable.

I make use of tables, and will make much more use in the near future. I use tables to list data in a way that is easier for the reader to understand...I will also be using them in my B&M business to create invoices, track costs, give estimates, and more...

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dongarcia

The importance of Alt Tags

Alt Image Tag engines aren't able to read images as such, so the alt tag or
text attribute describes what the image represents.

johneva

Internal links and the anchor text for them is important, all to often I see websites with javascript navigation menus or Flash nav menus, problem is search engines carnt read these and then are unable to follow the most important links on the page.

Good thread this is so far and at this rate should be made a sticky so we can send people who are new and need to know the basics to this thread.

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webcosmo

First time I heard Tables effect the SEO. Is there any source you could specify, I like to learn more about it.

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johneva

I can say for sure of my own experiance that a website layout done in CSS is much better SEO wise that a layout done with tables. I have seen the effects on a few sites now when they have been redesigned with CSS layout intead of tables.

Accessibility of a site is an important part of SEO something most people miss and CSS layout is the very most basic first part of making your site better accessibility wise.

just google search CSS layout SEO effects and you will find loads and loads of info on it anyways.

Remember Google is your friend

On a side note I really carnt understand why people still use tables for layout anyway they are useless for layout full page layout, there are so many reasons why CSS is better and yet I still hear the same old thing of but why do I have to use CSS for layout, why are they better.

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hasan_889

hhahahahaha ... it's good to criticize someone, but criticizing yourself is hard. I do believe http://www.photoarte.co.uk/ is your site or you are related with this site since it's in your signature link. If CSS is better and you can't find any reason why people use TABLE for layout, then why your site is TABLE based? Any specific reason?

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johneva

Hahaha, I never made the site and its not mine I just do some SEO work for it so get it right if your going to try and show them up personally. When I did I actually critercize somebody personally like you just have? Some people are sipley so rude I express my opinion of a matter never attacked anybody personally simpley said I dont get why people use tables anymore and get personally atteacked, with a comment to try and show me up using icorrect infomation.

Some noob website company who uses templates to make websites, made that site and is a perfect example of the naf codeing some website companys still actually use.

Just cos I am premoting a website does not mean I made it, assuming makes you look silly.

I am currently working with www.lease-hire.co.uk also

I have also worked for www.bestcarlease.co.uk / www.cdworld.ie and many more.

My personal website is www.john-eva.co.uk

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webcosmo

CSS is great for reducing the page size, produces clean code.. Sometimes its difficult to go without using table. For example if you use too many nested div tags IE does not show the inner div content.

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