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{"id":1016,"date":"2011-07-26T08:30:21","date_gmt":"2011-07-26T12:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/blog-seo\/?p=1016"},"modified":"2011-07-26T08:30:21","modified_gmt":"2011-07-26T12:30:21","slug":"are-css-based-layouts-better-than-tables-for-seo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/blog-seo\/are-css-based-layouts-better-than-tables-for-seo\/","title":{"rendered":"Are CSS-based layouts better than tables for SEO?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/fL_GZwoC2uQ?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"349\"><\/iframe><\/center>Thomas from Cincinnati asks, \u201cIs a website designed with a CSS-based layout more SEO friendly than a table-based layout?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Frankly I wouldn\u2019t worry about it. We see tables we see CSS, we have to handle both, so we try to score them well, no matter what kind of layout mechanism you use. Frankly I would use what\u2019s best for you. A lot of people these days tend to like CSS, because it\u2019s easy to change your site, it\u2019s easy to change the layout. Tables kind of have this web1.0 connotation to them. But if you have the vest site, we will try to find it and we\u2019ll try to rank it highly regardless of whether it\u2019s table-based or its CSS based<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thomas from Cincinnati asks, \u201cIs a website designed with a CSS-based layout more SEO friendly than a table-based layout?\u201d Frankly I wouldn\u2019t worry about it. We see tables we see CSS, we have to handle both, so we try to score them well, no matter what kind of layout mechanism you use. Frankly I would [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mattcutts-video-transcript"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/blog-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/blog-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/blog-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/blog-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/blog-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1016"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/blog-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1017,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/blog-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016\/revisions\/1017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/blog-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/blog-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/blog-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}