Hi All,
In the free website review, I'm offering through Al-Adham, the first point I was always highlighting is the table-based layout and its negative effect on SEO, I remember that had been a part of every CSS course/book I went through. Just revisiting the issue today and getting to the interesting "Google Webmaster Help" YouTube channel, as the final word in SEO will be always from Google, that video clarified the issue for me.
So, according to Google it doesn't make a difference from an SEO point of view whether a table-based or CSS-based layout is utilized in the site, but I'm still an advocate to CSS-based layout for so many reasons.
May be the way I learned from HTML Dog, and Lynda.com was all going for a semantic, W3C complaint markup.
It still a good idea for every website owner to subscribe to Google Webmaster Help's YouTube channel, I think it's a great resource for simplified, trusted information.
Link: http://www.youtube.com/user/GoogleWebmasterHelp
All the best
- Abdo
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