CSS help or hurt?

[YinYang]

ok, I have not learned CSS yet, and my question is does it help or hurt PR?

also whast is everything I can do with CSS. Will it make my job as a webmaster easyer?

also tell me your favorite thing about CSS.

thank you in advanced.

[webmaster]

Hi and welcome to DEVPPL.

The only thing that affects the Google PageRank is in/out-links.

One thing that benefits your SEO using CSS is that your code get more relevant and you pages gets smaller = faster to load for the search engines.

The best thing about using CSS is that you can do more then with just HTML, and that you're code gets smaller.

[YinYang]

Thank you, so you do think it is worth the time to learn.

this has been a big help.

oh and by the way that is my second welcome >.>

I come here every now and again.

[Tim.L]

If you are serious about website design then CSS is definately worth learning. Not only can you achieve better effects using it, but by linking all of your pages to a master CSS file you can also create a uniform style throughout your page which is easily editable.

[mrLenin]

Agree with you on 100% than CSS is very helpful for the work with pages. But I am a little bit confusion with problem what may be better CSS or table for html for getting better result with rating?

[webmaster]

Agree with you on 100% than CSS is very helpful for the work with pages. But I am a little bit confusion with problem what may be better CSS or table for html for getting better result with rating?

If you use a CSS/DIV layout, it will require much less code, which will result in more relevancy of your keywords in the text, which will help your seo. It will also help you when your pages are smaller in KB.

[jonespr]

I'm not sure if google cares much about your css code, but other small search engine sites do still crawl web content in your code, and it would make it easier for the crawlers if you separate all the styles in a css file.

[Tomi]

as webmaster said to get a high page rank it is important you have alot of in and out links, to optimise even more, you need Meta tags... they go in the <Title> part of the html code, here are some examples...

* <META name="resource-type" content="document">
o The only resource type that is currently in use is "document" This is the only tag that you need to put in for indexing purposes, but use of the others is a good idea.

* <META name="description" content="a description of your page">
o Depending on the search engine, this will be displayed along with the title of your page in an index. "content" could be a word, sentence or even paragraph to describe your page. Keep this reasonably short, concise and to the point. However, don't be so mean with your description that its not an appropriate reflection of the contents!

* <META name="keywords" content="a, list, of, keywords">
o Choose whatever keywords you think are appropriate, seperated by commas. Remember to include synoyms, americanisms and so on. So, if you had a page on cars, you might want to include keywords such as car, cars, vehicles, automobiles and so on.

* <META name="distribution" content="one of several">
o Content should contain either global, local or iu (for Internal Use). To be perfectly honest, I can't quite get my head around this one; its supposed to list available resources designed to allow the use to find things easily, but I still don't quite get it. My advice is to stick to "global".

Taken from http://www.philb.com/metatag.htm

[cools4u]

CSS does not play a role in PR, it helps to clean your web page by making your code less as the code used for formatting entered in a separate file termed as stylesheet...it helps to change formatting for whole website by changing a single file...

[HotNoob]

Hi and welcome to DEVPPL.

The only thing that affects the Google PageRank is in/out-links.

One thing that benefits your SEO using CSS is that your code get more relevant and you pages gets smaller = faster to load for the search engines.

The best thing about using CSS is that you can do more then with just HTML, and that you're code gets smaller.

Actually...
Google takes away marks for errors in your code, such as unclosed tags, quote errors, and missing brackets.
But yeah, for the most part google doesnt care much; However, if you use a pre-made script, there are certain advantages/disadvantages. For example, wordpress blogs are more likely to be BANNED for spam from google, than if you were to make a custom made blog from scratch. However, word press blogs will be indexed faster by google since the template is already in their servers. Also, when you make a post in wordpress, it will automatically be pushed up to the top of the results for a couple seconds, minutes and sometimes even days; depending on how common that topic is.

And yes, google also takes away marks for having a slower website.
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In short, if you have a well programmed website with REALLY clean and tidy code, you will get a 1-2pr within 3-12 months... with only a hand full of backlinks and a couple decent pages, but other than that, SPAM LINKS AWAY! lol.

Oh yeah, and a moderate amount of internal links can help with your PR, but if you spam them, like put 50 of them on the same page and going to the same page, it's gonna hurt your PR(part of googles anti-spam checking).
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summed up, don't spam, use common sense, and wait a while, and you'll do fine.