Tunguyen,

To the best of my knowledge, the only content Google can’t index are images, flash and similar objects. If the text is simply contained in <tr><td></td></tr> tags I’m sure Googlebot can still read the text.

Maybe you can find a definitive answer here,

https://sites.google.com/site/webmas...xing---ranking

Best,

Shawn

Google doesn't have a problem reading text in tables.

Show me a table where the page has a Google Cache & I can prove it, by showing you the Google Cache (text version).

Keep in mind you can put anything you want inside a table (iframe, javascript, flash, etc...), still the table itself will show plain text just fine in a Google Cache (text version).

What I read is that it was adviced not to use tables as it's old html and instead use the css to shape that type of things, maybe cause tables load slower? Heck no idea, but I didn't read it only at one place, many places suggested to quit using tables.

The problem is, even If the <table> tag was obselete Google can't just ignore the tag, half the indexed pages on the net would get ignored, doubtful Google would ever consider doing that.

As of today (4/22/2013) tables are fine, no big deal.

Again, it's very easy to prove that Google doesn't have a problem reading plain-text inside a table, look at the Google Cache (text version), the plain-text will be there (guaranteed).

As long as the major browsers support the <table> tag, I'm pretty sure Google will do the same. In other words, it's not likely the <table> tag is going to be obsolete any time soon.

BTW, I just now checked the HTML source code of this Warrior Forum thread, most of the forum page is a table. Open the source code for this forum thread page, then do a browser page search for the keyword .