Are Dreamweaver templates Spider friendly?

carju1 · #1 (**permalink**) 05-05-2004, 10:40 AM

This is part of a post in Site Design - As part of it is SEO related I thought I'd post it here as well.

Carju1 Moderator Site Design.

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I am currently managing 200 websites, constantly making changes to try and keep rankings as high as possible is a constant battle.

I started working with Dreamweaver Templates to speed up modification, and duplication time. This seemed to be working well until the respected Head of Marketing began chopping out lines of code which contained the template's instructions, such as:

<html>

He pointed out that any excessive code that gets in the way of the search engine's ability to find keywords, will drastically decrease the sites ranking.

I guess my questions are:

1)Are Dreamweaver templates impractical for sites depending on their keywords,content,and header tags to stay ranked?

2)Do tables' effect a spider's ability to find keywords which would be in the header tags, content, or navigation?

3)Is it smarter to use Front Page to build sites for this type of marketing?

4)Does the HTML coding that is displayed as a result of any design elements such as CSS styles, Dreamweaver Templates, bolding of fonts, font color and size etc., effect a spider's ability to find keywords or hurt a website's ability to get ranked?

5)What programs would a programmer or internet marketing specialist recommend using to build a spider friendly site?

6)Did I ask way too many questions for my first post?

Thanks.

-Bohak

cbp · #2 (**permalink**) 05-05-2004, 10:44 AM

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He pointed out that any excessive code that gets in the way of the search engine's ability to find keywords, will drastically decrease the sites ranking.

I do not think thats really that correct - especially the drastic bit. If it is true, the impact will be not be drastic. Finding examples of sites with really bloated coding that rank well is easy.

CBP

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