Being spidered - visibility of links in nested tables

[malcolmcroucher]

I am concerned bout content visibility in terms of spiders searching , how they see that content .

I have used a number of tables and loops for my layout and concerned that the table which are being used for a nice graphical layout obstructed the spider .

The tables are nested.

I have links in tables .

The layout works quite well , but Im concerned about the technical issues ?

I have used lynx and the content is fine in that ?

[tedster]

Google has been handling nested tables quite well for a while now - just make sure your mark-up is valid.

The only problem I see in recent years is that sometimes the relationship between parts of the page may be clear to the eye, but if that text is broken apart in the source code by different table cells, the relationship might be lost.