[Kalina]

It just drives me nuts to see the "I don't care" comments. Anyway, please refer to this recent discussion, some good points in it, tableless design affects SERP?

For those who won't bother to read that, Thomas Holmes makes a good point,

I imagine its to do with well structured code being easier for the search engines to read. Less problematic. but this is broader than tableless code - its valid xhtml and css.

the search engines like well structured pages - that's why for example they like heading tags. Pages that are designed in this way are designed to be more future-proof. The stylesheet can be updated as styles change and the well structured information could be rendered for different media using different stylesheets.

I did read somewhere (can't remember where though) that this was one reason why blogs are well respected by the search engines. most blogs have valid xhtml and css. mine still needs a little work however

This too, http://www.webcredible.co.uk/user-fr...irements.shtml