Onpage seo HTML or XHTML or Div.

What is best for onpage seo HTML or XHTML or Div.
What you people think. about.. it.
Thanks

I think Div will be better option

If you use an external file(css) with DIV you can have a very clean HTML code. Your design code will be in an external file so Google will read your site faster and better

You should really "compare apples with apples".

HTML or XHTML:
No noticeable differenceto SEO.

Div's or Tables:
Whilst div's do reduce code, the benefit to site optimisation is really minimal (considering that you can use CSS with either, so even tables need very little on-page code).

However - the biggest "SEO" benefit of Div's is that you can present your content in a different order in your code to that which appears on your page; so internal sitelinks which appear at the foot of your page can be the first thing in the code... Similarly 3rd party ad's which appear at the top of the page can be the last thing in your code... etc etc

I agree with fernando that CSS should be in an external file - this makes more difference to filesize than anything else (but of course filesize is only an issue on larger pages).

Yep, I agree with ClcikyB.

I am an avid user of XHTML and don't use anything else because with an external CSS 2.0 file it is a realy good manageable solution for producing web sites.

That being siad it does not produce noticeable differences in SERPs. I would say that I have noticed that all of my XHTML sites perform much better in MSN than in any other engine stright away. So in this case I would assume that MSN likes XHTML and the code layout I use. I would not base the choice of XHTML or HTML purely on an SEO point of view.

XHTML is simply a "more grammatically correct" way of using HTML... if HTML is "Hey, What's up?", then XHTML is "Hello, how are you today?". This additional rigidity to the structure means that folks usually pay more attention to what they are doing with the code which may be responsible for better ranking. It's likely slimmer in size and contains fewer coding errors making it easier and more reliable for spiders to crawl.

Div's are a tag used in both languages and simply "create blocks" on your page that can be moved around and managed independently. Updating code is easier and the comments above about positioning the code are way better than what tables offer a website.

Save tables for tabular data and use divs for layout - my 2 cents

Hey...
So i think div is better for seo..

first div then xhtml. am i right. ?

can you point me to a site that uses this? I would like to see the code and modify my pages to work as you said. or a link where this div technique is explaind would be awsome. thanks!

Well w3school is basic css

an one advance http://www.usabilityandbranding.com

I think you meant w3schools but I found the site easily. thanks!

sorry to bump this thread...I went to w3schools and found out a lot about css and I'm using divs now. but I still don't know how to put a 3rd party ad the last thing in my code but still let it show up as the first thing on the page. please be more specific with a link that exactly explains this or point me to a site that is already using it so I could take a sneak peak. thanks!!

table less pages with external css and javascripts is really fine!

I agree completely -- much faster, cleaner code.

Yes this is the best option !!

I wasn't able to find a way to put my text from the bottom as the first thing in the html code, but I found a way to completely hide a div with css.
so now I have a lot of relevant text in a div as the first thing in the code but it can't be seen at all by my surfers. is this an ok practice or will I be penalized somehow?!