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Re: text in tables From Ronny Skog on 17 June '99 replying to Re: text in tables posted by carl ballew Text within tables are indexed. If the structure of the HTML pushes your text (keywords)down at the site as seen by the engine (look at the source code), it might hurt your ranking though. >>my content uses a one-cell table to provide a frame around the text which may look nice, but I wonder if it means the content can’t be picked up by a search engine...this comes to mind when I find that although content in a page can be found with a “find” command, it cannot find text in a table. tks, Robert Sharp > >I seldom place anything outside a table, and if it handicaps me I can't detect it.

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>Text within tables are indexed. If the structure of the HTML pushes your text (keywords)down at the site as seen by the engine (look at the source code), it might hurt your ranking though. > > > >>>my content uses a one-cell table to provide a frame around the text which may look nice, but I wonder if it means the content can’t be picked up by a search engine...this comes to mind when I find that although content in a page can be found with a “find” command, it cannot find text in a table. tks, Robert Sharp >> >>I seldom place anything outside a table, and if it handicaps me I can't detect it. >