Does Placement Of Search-string Text On A Page (higher V Lower) Affect Seo-friendliness?

Discussion in 'Search Engine Optimization' started by domino66, Feb 15, 2013.

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    Do search engines assign a page higher relevance / value when a search string appears higher up on a page, rather than lower?.

    For example, let's say someone searches for "Is it hard to learn Chinese?"

    Let's say I have an FAQ page with 10 questions (of which 1 of them is the exact question above)...will Google and other search engines assign greater relevance/value to my page if that question (Is it hard to learn Chinese?) appears FIRST among the list of 10 FAQ questions?

    That seems like it would be intuitive...but I can't find anything that gives any indication that it's true.
     
    domino66, Feb 15, 2013 IP