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I'm going to use information from Google Code that is a bit dated but I think we can safely assume that much hasn't changed since they crunched those one billion documents.
Did you know that the average web page utilizes 19 of the approximately 81 valid HTML elements available? Only 19? Yes, I understand that many of the elements are specific and may not be required. But, I'm sure there are more than 19 elements that are of value from an indexing perspective, yes? Here are those 19 elements that make up the average web page in order of their usage...
HEAD, HTML, TITLE, BODY, A, IMG, META, BR, TABLE, TD, TR, P, SCRIPT, DIV, B, FONT, LINK, FORM, INPUTWhen you are constructing documents, do you make an effort to utilize the most benefit of the HTML 4 Elements and Attributes that are available to you?
Read the comments that are made within those Google Code documents. There is a little bit of insight there about various markup being used for web pages.
the reason in my case is that often i define the style of an element in the stylesheet and just use the element in the page without giving it a class.
"my new years resolution" was to not code a <table> tag unless i also had a value for the summary= attribute.
and maybe some <caption> element content as well.
Google Code: Web Authoring Statistics: The table elements:
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i'm 0-fer using table elements so far.
it would be nice to see some updated stats - it's been three years.
I'm waiting patiently. I do hope they do an update to that data this year. I'm going to guess that with the proliferation of blogging and social media platforms, that we'll see some elements appear in the mix that were not there before, or not visible in the top numbers presented.
Should an SEO be aware of this? I mean, should an SEO know each and every element and attribute that can be used from an authoring standpoint? Should they know that a defined term gets enclosed in the
<dfn></dfn><blockquote>cite<blockquote><q>
Should an SEO be aware of this?
probably.
i just started looking a (new to me) site today that is loaded with mm/dw table layout.
on one page it has some actual semantically tabular data that is crying to breathe freely and even get stronger with semantically rich table tags and attributes...
