Use CSS Instead of HTML Tags for Better Search Engine Rankings

Brandon Olejniczak shares tricks on how to use CSS for SEO – Search engine spiders work much the same way that the human eye does, and if there’s too much “junk text” in your HTML, it’s going to be hard for spiders to know what is what and to be able to decide that a page is relevant to a particular category.

Instead of using this to declare your title:

<strong><font color="#00FF00" size="24px">Main
Title of My Very First Website </font></strong>

Put this in your XHTML:

<h1>Main Title of My Very First Website</h1>

…And this in your CSS:

H1 {font-family: Arial; size: 24px;
color: #00FF00; font-weight: bold;}

Using H1 through H6 accordingly, you can use this methodology to style the sub-headings on your website and let the search engine spiders know they are of importance. But don’t forget to use one or two of your keywords in the title—otherwise it won’t make a difference either way. Link. [tags]seo[/tags]