Will Google be satisfied with main links in footer?

[punisa]

Over the years I started practising the strategy of bringing the text content as high as possible in my code.

Recently I've built a navigation bar that lists just 4 main links (like blog, forum etc..) and there I have a link called "articles".

Now, my article categories are actually placed in my footer ("cars", "technology", "fun" etc..) and when you click the button "articles" the bottom categories show up in a floating absolute div via javascript.
Which means I don't have duplicated links in header and footer, but will Google read all the way down?

p.s.
For your friendly comments of not using javascript, I've already worked out an alternative via "noscript" so no problem there : )

[Receptional Andy]

I think the idea of Google reading "down" a page is a pervasive myth, perhaps stemming from some of the arbitrary limits imposed in the old days (a 100 links, only analysing a certain KB of a given URL).

But, generally speaking, a search engines grabs the entirety of a page and then indexes it - i.e. pulling out aspects of interest in determining relevance. Sure, having lots of irrelevant content above more relevant content can't be helpful, but if you were reading a newspaper article, is the middle of the article intrinsically more valuable than the last paragraph?

Certainly, having the headline of an article below the actual content is likely to seem strange, and I'm sure there are other similar things that could crop up in a page-level analysis, but IMO this is often overstated.

As for having the main navigation below the content within code, many sites employ this approach (it's a bit of an accessibility debate, actually - is it better to have "skip to navigation" or "skip to main content"?) and it's highly unlikely that this an approach will cause any problems when Google looks at the navigational aspect of your page.

[punisa]

Thanks for detailed clarification Andy, I feel much better already : D