Forum Moderators: phranque
This is an idea i've been playing around with, but not tested the benefits yet:
Place the most important components of your page first in the source, and then use some simple DHTML/CSS/Javascript to position them on the screen. The advantages (appart from not using tables) are that you can put your most important paragraph just after the <BODY> tag (this is especially usefull if you want to have a menu on the left hand side), hence scoring more in search engine ranking algorithms. The disadvantages of course come when the browser doesn't support javascript or CSS.
Would also it be a good idea to have a completely invisible <DIV> section at the top, with a lovely keyword optimised paragraph? Suppose that could be classed as spamming, but how would be spiders know?
What do you reckon?
Alex
Of course, browser compatibility suffers, so you have to either create a second page and redirect to it for old browsers, or just be willing to serve a garbled page to them and sacrifice that traffic.
