Re: SEO and CSS

Stapes wrote:
Hi

I have been led to believe by a company specializeing in Search Engine
Optimization, that it is good to use <div> tags and absolute
positioning to keep all the elements on my web page in the same place,
but these <div>'s can then be shunted about in order of the importance
of the pages content.
The idea is that the spiders only look at the first 200 characters of
content. If your important text is not there, the search engines won't
find it.
This is proving very long winded - having to practically rewrite every
web page I am given to optimize to use <div> tags and CSS.

What do other members of the forum think?

Stapes

I've broken every so-called rule and I still have sites that are in the top 5 or 10. It's not where you have tags placed that makes a difference but instead how much information you have and if that information is useful enough for people to come back and look a second time.

There's this other thingy out there that you have to have a lot of other websites linking to your site to make it in the top 10 (Google will even tell you this is true, but it's not - very few people write websites so it's silly to think this is true). I have one site that has virtually no links from other sites and it's #3 (last time I checked) so getting linked may help you get started but other websites drop links faster than you can spin a bottle so it's impossible to keep up with that kind of nonsense.

Think of it this way, you know how they say in business, it's location, location, location. On the web, it's content, content and content.

Google will find your entire page if you have something worth indexing and you can break all the rules.

Pat

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