Q & A: Upgrading to Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
Will Upgrading to CSS Help with SEO?
In Theory …Yes. In reality …Maybe. The Major Search Engines really are very good at getting to the data they want, no matter how it’s wrapped, and the technology continues to improve.
BUT - using External CSS does make sense:
Style changes can be made quickly and easily, simply by editing a Cascading Style Sheets file.
Using External Cascading Style Sheets does make for some tidier source code. And tidy code can make crawling and indexing a website faster and easier for Search Engine Bots and Spiders.
And, as Will Bontrager says in the excellent “Cascading Style Sheets (CSS); Getting Started” tutorial - “…making style changes to your site’s web pages is not only quick and easy, but also fun.”
…Read the entire article here, and see the CSS 3 column website layout I’m playing with currently.
