How to have main text on page come before navigation for rank?

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How to have main text on page come before navigation for rank?

How to have main text on page come before navigation for page rank?

danv

6:06 pm on Dec 27, 2005 (gmt 0)

I would like to have my home page look better for search engines and I heard that it is a good idea to have main text appear before navigation. So I used a search engine spider simulator to look at my web page to see the order of text that Google sees.

How can I have the main text on my site come before my top navigation and my left navigation menu? Easy with CSS?

My website is:.. ooops

thanks.

[edited by: SuzyUK at 1:36 pm (utc) on Dec. 30, 2005]

keno

4:38 am on Dec 31, 2005 (gmt 0)

Have a look at other sites on the web and see how they do it.

One method is to use a javascript top menu and also a javascript side menu.

I'm not sure if that's the best way, but it might be something you could look into.

helenp

10:42 am on Dec 31, 2005 (gmt 0)

I do it with css,
As my columns are absolute and the place to situate them do not depend on order in the script at all, I just put the main div first then the navigation div.
I would not recomend an javascript menu for the searchenginges.

SuzyUK

11:42 am on Dec 31, 2005 (gmt 0)

danv.. have you two columns or three (or more?)

it's easy with 2 you just put the content div first and float the two columns in opposite directions whichever way round you want them to appear.. if you have a top menu you can put it last in the source and then position it absolutely as helenp says

with three columns it's still possible either using absolute positioning or some float wrap tricks.

one simple float wrap method works something like..

<style type="text/css" media="screen">
#container {
width: 780px;
margin: 0 auto;
background: #eee;
}
#floatwrap {
float: right;
width: 600px;
}
#content {
float: left;
width: 420px;
background: #fff;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="container">
<div id="floatwrap">
<div id="content">main content in here<br />blah blah blah</div>
<div id="right-column">right column content</div>
</div>
<div id="left-column">left column content</div>
</div>

as in you put a wrapper div around the content and right columns and float it to the right which leaves the left column in place, then you float the actual content left inside the float wrapper div which corrects the display order of the right and content columns

Suzy

danv

5:56 pm on Dec 31, 2005 (gmt 0)

Thanks.

I don't use absolute positioning. I use 2 columns, where the left column is static and the right column can expand with the screen. Though I would like to force the 2nd column to only shrink to a set pix size of say 400 pix without wrapping horribly. I haven't been able to do this nicely yet. (I think the CSS is getting too messy)

My code is setup like this:

</head>
<body>
<div id="Layer1" style="position:absolute; left:504px; top:123px; width:198px; height:28px; z-index:1"><a href="http://www.<SomeWebsiteHere>.com/archives/" class="style2">Office Activate Web Blog</a> </div>
<div id="content">








<div class="clear"></div>
<div id="dropshadow"></div>





<div id="maincontent">

<br>

thanks.