you could rebuild the table so that the left-column is not the first thing it crawls
for example...
2 rows on left column (1st row empty - left-column content on second row)
1 row on right column (rowspan=2)
this way when the spider comes to crawl your page ... it will find the first cell (1st row) and find it empty ... it will then move to the next cell (right column) and crawl that before moving on to the left-column (2nd row) contents
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