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Old 12-07-2007, 06:38 PM
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Default Re: SEO and tableless design

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Originally Posted by SemAdvance View Post
The leading cause of robots choking and tripping is the use of poor HTML coding. If a page cannot be crawled then it is not included in the index and if it is not in the index it cannot rank for it's keywords.

The thing is, HTML won't validate (if the doc-type is wrong) with such attributes as align="left" or border="0"...

That won't choke a robot but it does choke the W3C validator and is it really "the leading cause" ?

*curious
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