Posted by Philip on 11/17/29 11:50

In article <1150493097.680989.317800@h76g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>,
ActionNotMotion@gmail.com wrote:

> The layout of my new page design is quite nice, but it relies heavily
> on tables to support it's rather complicated structure. It's not so
> much the clarity that worries me - I've labeled everything nicely and
> am gonna CSS it thoroughly once fully finished.
>
> In terms of not 'dulling' and repelling incoming spiders by having them
> search through miles of structure before they get to the actual meat, I
> want shrink my page as much as possible. Would iframes be the best way
> to do this?: move certain sections of the main page, into subpages, and
> then iframe those subpages into the main?

Hi Action,
I doubt that spiders are going to be put off by the quantity of HTML
tags in your code. You might, however, want to make your pages
lightweight for the users who have to download them, also for your own
maintenance sanity.

Google has some guidelines for Webmasters, and in the basic principles
they say, "Make pages for users, not for search engines". They also
mention frames as something to be a little wary of (but it's a mild
admonition) and they encourage you to use correct HTML. It's worth a
read, and I imagine that if other search engines published guidelines,
they'd read similarly.

http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=35769

HTH

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Philip
http://NikitaTheSpider.com/
Bulk HTML validation, link checking and more

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