what paper have CSS into SEO?

[emmrodsa]

did you guys know if Css have something important to the SEO ?

thanks

[seobook]

CSS does not usually play into seo other than the fact that it allows you to change how different elements are displayed on a page (and thus code them in better ways which aid the relevancy of the page while keeping the page looking attractive)

[gooner]

From an SEO perspective, is the main advantage of CSS, that it allows you to get your content to the top of the body section of the HTML rather than having all the table stuff there, if your page is set up like that?

[seo_sensey]

From my point of view CSS ( mainly using DIVs instead of tables ) can help you clear up your source, making your files easily readable by the spiders and lowering the file size.

[jlknauff]

Clean up your code-yes.
Lower your file size-yes & no.

It does lower your HTML file size but when a real person comes to your site the CSS is loaded as well, so you have to count the size of both. IMO external CSS is definately the way to go, much less code overall, easier to make site wide changes, more control over layout and - the reason we're all HERE - better SEO.

[CMA]

Good day guys!
I am using CSS and XHTML on a new site. It gave me great rankings. This is surely not the fact of the CSS and XHTML used, but as senses said, every program, and a spider clearly is a program, loves structure and small sizes.
And also your traffic costs will go down when you try to make your page size small and your content great ;-)

[LaryL]

[QUOTE=jlknauff]
Lower your file size-yes & no.

It does lower your HTML file size but when a real person comes to your site the CSS is loaded as well, so you have to count the size of both. IMO external CSS is definately the way to go[/QUOTE]

Using external CSS files means that the style file is only downloaded once, not every time the page is loaded. So you only need to add the size of both page and stylesheet files for the first page downloaded. After the first download, the CSS stylesheet will be cached, so only the html will be downloaded for subsequent pages.

So, yes - CSS can help reduce file sizes. However, this doesn't work if you leave all your CSS info in the document head.

[vivekar]

Using CSS, You can generate cool tabbed interfaces.
Button styles.
Great presentation styles.

With the majority of browsers supporting CSS, it is a good option for graphics overload such as rollover images.

The objective of CSS is to separate content from the presentation style.

Bots love content. People love presentation.

[hunter]

what mentioned is the benefits of CSS. But you should consider its drawbacks.

as far as I know, first 25-35 words of the page is very important for spiders then we should use Keyword rich Headings there. Extra CSS and Javascript coding may be a fault.

But as mentioned we can define styles in an external file and make our page to have a consistent look.

[jlknauff]

Thats why you use an external style sheet. ;)