Use HTML Tables Sparingly
There are a number of ways to format web pages and one of the most common is using tables. While these are great for design and layout it is advised to use HTML tables sparingly. There are a couple of reasons and a couple of solutions to overuse of HTML tables.
The first reason to use html tables sparingly is the way that the code appears to search engine spiders. There are a couple of problems with this. First, having multiple nested tables for your header, top and left navigation, and then on to body content puts the important text lower on the page. The main problem here is that a search engine spider will have to comb through lines and lines of code before reaching your main content which lowers the chance that your page will rank well for your central theme.
The second reason to use html tables sparingly is that many times the cell and text color changes to suit the purpose such as changing text color, background color, etc. Using this much additional code to format your page causes an increase of the total size of code and irrelevant text and lowers the density of your content and primary keywords.
There are a couple of fixes to ensure that you use html tables sparingly which are moving items like navigation to the right of the page so it will occur after the body content and using style sheets to format your pages to make the characteristics external to your html document’s code.
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