Page ranking for a webstie

A badly coded site may have this effect but not just because a site is built in tables. Are you getting external links pointing to you? The quality of these links are important for PR, although IMO the toolbar is still slightly up the shoot and PR isn't being updateed as often as it was!

I have been told that nested tables annoy the spiders, but I have no proof of it. Webmistress, links TO my site matter a lot? if so, I am dead.

Acadia - From what I know, a lot of nested tables or other unnecessary code (font tags for example) make it harder for the spiders to find the text on your page because it is buried among a lot of HTML code that the spider is trying to disregard.

Links to your site matter a lot for the search engines. However, they are trying to place emphasis only on natural links. Basically, they want to identify links that have been created because the page is actually good and not because the webmasters have arranged to place links on each others pages or (worse) paid for them.

I think the importance of PR does tend to get overblown a bit. We have a better placement in the search results for our keyword than several sites with better PR. However, from what I know it does have an impact on how often and how deeply your site is crawled. Which could explain why we have some difficulty in getting our secondary pages to come up in search results.

I think the best thing you can do is make a good site that people will want to link to because it's good. Then get the word out to people who might link to you (bloggers, forum posters, other webmasters in your genre etc.)

construction wrote: I need to imporve the page ranking for my website.
Does the spider have difficulty in indexing the website if a lot of tables are used.

I don't believe that.