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09-10-2009, 01:38 AM #1Web Hosting Master
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SEO and CSS stylesheets
What does everyone think, scratch that, KNOW about CSS rule names and SEO? Good, bad, indifferent?
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09-10-2009, 01:41 AM #2Junior Guru Wannabe
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I would have to say, I know very little!
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09-10-2009, 05:06 AM #3Web Hosting Master
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Which CSS and with search engine? I assume in the both cases we will have different approach
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09-10-2009, 09:28 AM #4WHT Addict
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Generally well put together, CSS, sites with a better code to content ratio, get a very minimalistic advnatage over a traditonal table, or verbosley coded site.
It make as difference but its minute.
As the arrangement of CSS does not really matter, some say use CSS to get your content near the top but unless its a very big page it should not matter
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09-10-2009, 09:43 PM #5Web Hosting Master
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^ Where did you get that information? My information shows otherwise.
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09-10-2009, 10:30 PM #6Junior Guru
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Matt Cutts has mentioned previously that they (Google) do not care whether a site is a CSS or table layout. I will try to find the video if needed.
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09-11-2009, 07:07 PM #7Web Hosting Guru
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09-12-2009, 08:54 PM #8Web Hosting Guru
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I haven't seen anything anywhere where style sheets have ever mattered. Also, if they do, I couldn't tell you becuase I have good optimization on several sites, and none of the style sheets have any kind of conformity whatsoever.
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09-12-2009, 09:14 PM #9Web Hosting Master
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Hey Guys,
I'm not asking about layout. I'm specifically asking about whether Google prefers descriptive css id names.
For instance I have a motorcycle website
< div id = " engines " >
content content content
< / div >
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09-12-2009, 09:42 PM #10Web Hosting Guru
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I know what you meant but I just don't know, I will be researching this later in the week.
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09-13-2009, 01:06 AM #11Junior Guru
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I don't think there is much value, if any, in CSS element names. Since Matt Cutts himself has mentioned there are no advantages of CSS layouts versus table layouts, why would there be value in element names?
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09-13-2009, 05:09 AM #12Aspiring Evangelist
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Yh as all mentioned CSS or without it.. not much effecting.. But now almost templates are without table, position of the sites element is fully managed by style sheet.. Almost HTML tags are ignored....
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09-13-2009, 05:57 AM #13Web Hosting Guru
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I believe the search engine will only read the displayed text on the site (ie: what your visitors can read).
I'm not 100% sure, although it would make sense for google not to record the name of a div tag as that could also throw the site completely off balance in term of it's searchable content.Last edited by DesignBear; 09-13-2009 at 05:58 AM. Reason: missed a word out :)
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