I have been working on a website for the past few weeks. Its the first one I really have been doing myself. I have been using tables but have been reading lately about using tables to design a website is bad for SEO. So I am planning on converting them to CSS. How easy is it to do? Any advice?

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Learning to build tableless layouts has a learning curve. Having converted may tabled sites to css, I find it's best to just tear it down and start over. Build your html framework, put in your css, then copy/paste your content into the new layout.

Originally Posted by watchitmister

I have been working on a website for the past few weeks. Its the first one I really have been doing myself. I have been using tables but have been reading lately about using tables to design a website is bad for SEO. So I am planning on converting them to CSS. How easy is it to do? Any advice?

Congratulations (and respect) for being willing and open to the idea of using CSS and DIVs over tables.

Using of tables on a website is not bad for your SEO purposes. But its a suggestion to avoid using of tables A LOT on your pages.

Originally Posted by bestseo

Using of tables on a website is not bad for your SEO purposes. But its a suggestion to avoid using of tables A LOT on your pages.

Tables should only be used to display tabular data NOT for page or design structure.

Symantic and good code is good for SEO, thus tables maynot be bad persay but they are not as good as properly formatted HTML code using CSS and DIV's.