Hello fellow members,
I have been running the following site
Statues, columns, pedestals, table bases, sconces, corbels, Stuffed Animals at LowPrice4u: for the 10 years an selling off of it with overall traffic on decline but quality traffic staying about the same for a while.
Here's the background:
1) the whole site is generated from templates and driven from a database. and I could literally change the look and feel of 8000 pages in about 10 seconds.
2) I am crawled all the time by the Search Engine Bots
3) I use tables extensively, but not frames.
4) I have heard that I should use <div> tags instead tables
5) Others have said by using div tags I can take the navigational elements and move them to the bottom of my page. Thus moving the content up and more powerful.
By the way I am not convinced switch from the <table> tag to the <div> tag buys me anything from a bot looking at the page. They should be able to handle both.
I can see maybe the navigation elements like a toolbar being placed at the end of generated code vs. the beginning having an affect. But does anyone have a research to back it up?????
So what are the pros and cons of making the changes and is there any real reason I should do it?
I really would like some answers because if it really is the case that I am hurting my positions in the Search Engine I will switch my site around faster then you can say "I'm a Newbie!"