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Originally Posted by Thomas
Tables do not affect the way search engines rank or view your website.
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From my understanding table nesting can do due to the way the spider navigates around the tabled content, I'm sure I read that somewhere in .Net magazine. Also a quick google found the link below.
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Originally Posted by http://www.digital-web.com/articles/seo_and_your_web_site/
From a technical perspective, search engine spiders can read tables, and even embedded tables, but once a design gets to be more than about three tables deep, most spiders run into problems. Either it’s simply too much code for them to keep track of, or the search engine thinks you placed that content deep in the page because it’s not important, and so the engine gives it little or no value.
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I mean, it's on the web it must be true!
That said, a quick look around suggests its something of a debated topic. Regardless there's very little reason to use tables for layout, doing so will only generate more work for yourself in the future and more oppurtunity for CSS based companies to move in
