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Click to view intechspecial's profile Mogul intechspecial 1,457 posts since
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15. Re: CSS is not the SEO silver bullet... Nov 10, 2008 5:53 AM
in response to: Mongoose
You really have to understand CSS to understand that CSS and SEO are not two relevant topics.

CSS is simply today's standards for designing the front end of static and dynamically loaded websites.

Comparing CSS to SEO is like comparing fruit to coffee.
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16. Re: CSS is not the SEO silver bullet... Nov 10, 2008 6:08 AM
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Yes, but CSS provides a clean layout for both usability purposes and content structuring, which helps along SEO.
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17. Re: CSS is not the SEO silver bullet... Nov 10, 2008 6:22 AM
in response to: Mongoose

This is true but this is just one small portion of SEO.


CSS is more for functionality and design, and is not meant specifically for SEO.

Using meta tags, images, keywords in paragraphs and title tags is just a small portion of SEO.

Google does not care if you use CSS, Tables, XML, or other design types. There are many other methods to gain high SEO rankings.CSS stands for Cascading Style Sheets and this has to do with how the browser renders the code.

Search eninges take other things into there ranking of your site. How many keywords are on your site? How many links point at your site? What is the Page Rank of these sites?(page rank should not be confused with Search Engine Rank as they are completely different) Of these links that point to your site, how much traffic and such do they recieve? Is your site correctly designed to meet basic WAI standards.(Alt text next to images for example is relevant to accessibilty and not just CSS). Is your site doing anything "illegal" to super inhance your keywords? Is your site HTML or XHTML valid?

It might help to do a search on CSS and then do a search on white hat seo and/or black hat seo.

You will probably be able to understand better what I am saying.

I hope this helps.

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18. Re: CSS is not the SEO silver bullet... Aug 19, 2009 10:54 AM
in response to: intechspecial

CSS can be used for changing the order they way things on page are read by the bot.

For example,. if you want your main content to be read before the navigation menu, but the navigation menu is displayed on top, you can easily do this with CSS.

Also, CSS can make your webpage load faster. This can produce better user behavior on site. Which google uses this for serp results.

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