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TV, radio, newpaper, Yellow Pages,&nbsp;and other advertising, produced&nbsp;terrible returns on investment numbers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5240,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[619],"class_list":["post-92","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet-marketing","tag-search-engine-optimization-2"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Why CSS Website Design Matters for SEO | Directory One<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Author:Philip O&#039;Hara, CEO Search Engine Optimization CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) are a new way of laying out websites, that is far superior to building\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, 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