Comments on: Source Ordered Content: SEO Benefits (and Drawbacks?)

By: sul1nko

sul1nko — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 01:39:26 +0000

I’m currently developing a web trying to incorporate SOC, the only drawback I came along, were rendering issues of IE 6. After a while, the simplest solution was to wrap the absolutely positioned element (header) into another element, to display it in the front.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 20:31:43 +0000

One possible drawback I can think of is this: What if you have alot of content, and it pushes your menu below the 100k (I think thats what I read) limit that spiders stop reading the page at?

If the spiders aren’t seeing your navigation links, you are going to have a problem.

By: Rahul

Rahul — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 06:04:34 +0000

Excellent post. I Googled “content before navigation” and came here. I completely redesigned my website after I realized how horrible it looked to a bot – I mean, I had 15+ links before the actual content!

By: Matt

Matt — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 14:27:34 +0000

Thanks Tucker,

But what about when your site is just centred in a container div. ie, this is the site I am trying to do it for: http://www.elitespeeddating.co.uk

By: Tucker

Tucker — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 14:22:14 +0000

You can change the float direction of your divs. Let’s say you have a left column div and a main content div. Place your main content div before your column div in the html code and reverse your floats.

By: Matt

Matt — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 16:17:22 +0000

One question though, HOW do we do this? I can’t find a tutorial anywhere.

By: Neil

Neil — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 21:00:53 +0000

This isn’t covered often enough. Excellent post!

By: sally

sally — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 03:51:48 +0000

Once again thanks for your post. It is really very informative.

I am not sure about the disadvantages.

Even I have a site in which the navigation bar has many links(its a drop down menu) because of this the content gets pushed down to the bottom of the html page. Even i was thinking the same solution for it. Except home page in other pages placing the navigation menu after the content (using CSS) really am not sure if it is possible or not, lets see.

Thanks