Unordered Lists Effect On Google Rankings

[gbgamblers23]

I'm just wondering if anyone has any experience with the effects of excessive use of unordered lists affecting google rankings. With my new site i'm using an unordered list on every page/post because the formatting of images and text gets all jumbled up on the homepage if it's not broken down into lists.

i know this can be fixed through css formatting but i can't figure it out for the life of me since all the regular formatting techniques aren't working. I'm guessing theres some coding built into the theme for my cms that i just don't have the time to go through step by step to figure out right now.

Anyways the result is i'm making every post an unordered list basically broken down with each paragraph being a list item and each image being it's own list item as well.

I didn't think this would be a problem but i had never tried it before and but since i started doing this my rankings in google have been falling slowly.

so i'm wondering if anyone else has expirence with this and could shed some light. I'm guessing it's completely unrelated but i thought i might as well ask.

[tedster]

Does your mark-up validate? If so, I can't see it as the source of any ranking problem. If there is some kind of error it might cause sections of the content not to be included in the analysis.

You said that your rankings are "falling slowly" - and if the lists were causing the problem, I would think any fall would be seen in one big drop, not slowly.

Is this a long established site that is now losing rankings?

[gbgamblers23]

the sites about a year old and i'm adding unordered list pages slowly because all the posts/pages are fine on their own but when their on the front page with 5-6 other posts they get jumbled up. I just set up a function that brings the most recent posts/pages to the front page ( similar to a blog ) so now when i make a new page i have it set up as an unordered list.

I could always just change the formatting back to traditional mark up once the page is off the front page but i would think this would be a bigger concern as constantly changing the format of pages would seem more likely to hurt a sites ranking within the search engines