: Yes, table design are bad for S.E.O. The best thing to do for S.E.O. optimization is considerate that a bot read your site as a blind. So, when you use a table design, it's impossible to

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Yes, table design are bad for S.E.O.

The best thing to do for S.E.O. optimization is considerate that a bot read your site as a blind.

So, when you use a table design, it's impossible to properly linearize your content, and impossible to know what is on the top and what isn't.

Try to do a site conform with section 508 (see this article about validators for it) and WCAG from the WAI (take look here for validation), and try to read it with tool like Lynx, or after a linearization (with the Web Developer Toolbar of Firefox by exemple).

The more your respect the grammar (<p> is for paragraphs, <table> for tabular content...), of the (x)HTML, the more it improve its accessibility AND its S.E.O..

So, use <table> for tabular data, not for design, use <h1> as the first heading title not a <span> with syles, etc., and don't use some <h3> just to make your text bolder and bigger, but because you put a first and a second heading title, and you need to create a sub section of the previous <h2> section in the structure of your document (not your webpage).

An important thing to do it easy is to know and use the document flow.

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