Isn't the Code to Text Ratio Important for SEO?

[Webnauts]

From my knowledge and experienve, the code to text ratio of a page is used by search engines and spiders to calculate the relevancy of a web page. A higher code to text ratio gives you a better chance of getting a good page ranking for your page.

Maybe not all search engines are using the code to text ratio in their index algorithm, but most of them do. So having a higher code to text ratio than your competitors gives you a good start for on-site optimization.

And my question to you: Do search engines read the whole amount of a page? If yes, if your pages are filled with excessive HTML code, they will not see all the text content.

Some resources for further reading:
1. http://www.seochat.com/c/a/Search-En...ion-and-CSS/5/
2. http://alistapart.com/articles/seo
3. http://www.dot-seo.com/seo-tools/web...content-ratio/

Don't you agree with all this?

[Bluecircle]

Spiders read the whole page consisting of readable content. As long as your pages have a good amount of relevant content you should be fine.

[Diddy1]

I've heard about this too and I am thinking it's true. Since googlebot now uses mediabot (adsense) it checks both.

Thank You

[Bagi Zoltán]

Well i am sure that this ratio is also very important in seo. That was the reason why i redesign my site useing css. It improved the ratio and my rankings