Body tag and keywords

Importance of having keywords near the body tag

[epsrx]

Hello,

I have a question about the importance of having keywords near the body tag. On my site I have a left navigation bar and then comes the content area to the right of the left navigation bar (classic design). The left navigation bar contains around 45 product links. My first <p> tag is in the content area just after the section title <h1> tag and both tags have keywords in them. Here is how it looks:

1.Upper banner table cell (no content)
2.Upper menu table cell (6 main text links..i.e. About Us, Contact us, etc)
3.Left navigation bar table cell (45 products links)
4.Content area table cell (<h1> and first <p> tag are in this cell)

Should I move the left navigation bar to the right so the page content area becomes nearer to the body tag? I prefer the right side because it is the most logical place for site navigation.

Comments and Feedback would be appreciated.

Cheers,
epsrx

[takagi]

You could put an empty cell in the middle of the left column and use a 'rowspan=2' in the right-lower cell to compensate for this empty cell in the left column. That would bring the content area (cell 4) closer to the start of the body because the navigation area (cell 3) is later in the source code.

+---+---+
¦ 1 ¦ 2 ¦
+---+---+
¦ 3 ¦ 4 ¦
+---+---+

Old

+---+---+
¦ 1 ¦ 2 ¦
+===+---+
¦ 3 ¦ 4 ¦
+---+---+

New

[bagatell]

or you could use CSS and absolute positioning..