Will presentational HTML tags actually be having a negative SEO effect?

[SanjidaKazi]

Hi All,

I have been using some scanning tools as usual and I keep getting notified about presentational HTML. I'm not involved in the web design but if this is actually having a negative effect then we need to get it changed.

Can anyone advise?

"pages of this website were found to use presentational HTML elements and/or attributes. It is widely regarded that use of presentational HTML like and

should be avoided."

[SanjidaKazi]

Thanks again Robert,

I have been really trying to perfect our site so we can get the most from it. Judging by yours and others replies, it's as good as it's going to get and any more tinkering will be splitting hairs.

Thanks for the info, onto other things

[RobertFisher]

Jamie,

Again I agree with Alick and I would say this regarding anything where there are suggestions to do or not to do: You have to take them in context and look at the overall picture. You can take any website that we have recently done a lot of SEO on and I will still find little things that could be changed.

An example is if you use a tool like Google Pagespeed Insights. There are going to be a lot of recommendations but once a site is within a reasonable range, you can get into total overkill. An example could be that while it is nice and helpful for sites to utilize a CDN, frankly, not every site needs to.

Hope that helps,

Robert

[Alick300]

Hi Jamie,

No not at all, you can use such tags and attributes.

Thanks