Making html table as 'seofriendly' as possible

[jcobo]

Hi,

On my website I have a table with a list of products, on every row I have a different product and a different property on each column. The table is made with css so the html code is clean. The problem is (I guess) that google doesn't 'understand' what its inside on the table. So if I do a google search that page appears on the page 87, there is any way to improve my SEO without changing the table? Or to improve my SEO I must change the format of my content?

In resume, I want to improve the SEO page of a page that contains information organized inside a table. I don't know if there is a specific answer to this question.

Any help is welcome.

Regards

[jcobo]

Hi,

On our website we show a list of industrial products on a table form, we do it with a table format because we want to show the functionalities and capabilities of each machine.

Regards

[KristinaKledzik]

Hi Jcobo,

A good way to check to see if Google understands your content is to use Google Search Console and fetch the page as Googlebot. Look at Googlebot's version of the page - does it see the content in the table?

Like Logopedia said, HTML tables are extremely SEO friendly, so I'd be surprised if Google can't read your content.

On the flip side, tables are often not particularly user friendly. Why do you have a page full of your products? How is that valuable for a visitor? If Google doesn't think a page is user friendly, it won't rank it well.

Hope this helps steer you in the right direction!

Kristina

[martinxm]

Hi jcobo.

The HTML tables are very SEO friendly. They are clearly labeled, structured data, simple to parse... Just remember to use for the best SEO practices.

Here a link with the HTML rules https://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_thead.asp