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Originally Posted by TheMenace  Does anyone think there would be any merit in Google taking web standards and semantics into account more when ranking pages? Or perhaps penalising sites that are coded poorly, use tables for layout, etc? |
But not all tables are bad. When the information far outweighs design then tabular tables are green for go. Vbulletin uses tables. I think most forums do actually.
Don't well coded CSS sites have a semantic advantage over standard table based sites anyway?
Google would have to implement standards on their own sites if they were to make it a factor in SERP ranking. I can't see it happening but certainly in the next few months we are going to see a good few tweaks of G's algorithm.