Hello everyone, I was recently thinking about a neat seo trick, although i'm not sure if it helps. Here is what i mean: Create a page with 2 floating divs, but not in the usual order so the menu is not spidered as the first keywords. Because usualy menu items are not relevant to the content keywords. <head> </head> <body> <div style="float:right;"> <h1>title</h1> content </div> <div style="float:left;"> <a href="">menu item1</a><br /> <a href="">menu item2</a> </div> </body> Does this help improve search engine ranking?
This is actually an old trick. But apparently it's a good one because the links higher on a page do seem to get a little more juice.
agreed. A well-established "trick" that can help you get indexed slightly better. That's the beauty of CSS, you can alter your floats and move the code around but still keep the same look
I agree, it should help. Get your links and content as close to the <body> tag as possible, this will help your rankings out.
CSS is amazing actually, it has done wonders to my sites in terms of SEO. It cleans up the code and google really likes it as well. Keep getting focused on the CSS and make good content and you should do great.
It depends on what the content is, really. If that H1 is related to the content directly below it, then yes, you'll see an improvement on the terms that people are searching for (as long as it matches the content on your page). Oh, by the way, I'd use an unordered list for those links instead.
Yes, better. CSS generated sites is more search engine friendly than tabled sites. It is better if you have it validated through w3c's validator.
It's never a good idea to game the search engines by abusing heading tags. Use the HTML for what it was meant to do - define the structure of your Web pages. (In this case, use H1 once - for the page title.)