Some may be thinking why do we need to get our content read first?
Well in search engine optimization (SEO) it's very important that you understand how a search engine reads a page.
If you're using tables the search engine will read one row at a time from the left to the right and in most cases often than not it will index the content and display the text in the Google's description area when results are pulled up from a search engine users query.
One way to get around this problem is let's suppose we have row one, and this contains our header image. Insure that you use the "ALT" Tag. This is the description of the image, enter a phrase there that you want to rank for ending the phrase with "image" or "pic" or "graphic" or "picture".
Then let's suppose we have row two and this contains our text links - make sure that these are the keywords you want to use and in the a href tag use the "title" attribute, example:
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<a href="www.yoursite.com" target="_self" title="your keyword phrase here">Your Keyword text Link</a>
Of course we could just use the meta description tag within our head tag
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<meta name="description" content="what our web page is about" />
But by doing this we are limiting the what the search engine is allowed to place in the description area of a search result.
What I would suggest to do to ensure that you get the results you need is to use Absolute Div Tags.
These are like tables themselves but without the use of tables. Mainly driven by CSS (Cascading Style Sheets). And the best part is you can manipulate the way the search engine reads your content.
For instance, we can place an ADiv (absolute div tag - for short) for a container of an image for our header and make sure that it's under the body ADiv, so what may seem like when reading the code in order that the header image would be under the body content when in fact when it's read as a web page the header image is still at the top where it should be.
Then we start constructing our body content in the manner as we would for our description meta tag - a lot of people do not take the time when doing this when simply if one trained their mind to do things a certain way it starts to become second nature to do this on the fly. Make sure that each paragraph has at least 2 keywords or semantically related keywords in your text, that way you will give the search engine a way to choose what paragraph it deems a perfect match for the users search query - end result is that you will get 10, or not 20 times more traffic than you would if you didn't create your pages this way.
As always Thanks LOz