Richard Grant Posted October 5, 2014 Share Posted October 5, 2014 i have a website with the html written something like this.. wrapper content footer navigation usually iv'e written he html like this: navigation wrapper content footer I decided to put the navigation on the bottom in order to avoid using the CSS z-index property Would you say this is bad for SEO(search engine optimization)? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 ashpowell Posted October 5, 2014 Share Posted October 5, 2014 So is the navigation to the top or bottom of your page? I'm not sure how the layout from top to bottom would have anything to do with z-index as thats depth. Regarding SEO, I believe top of page is favoured, but its mainly about content and not trying to pull tricks like absolute positioning to align things higher up, hidden content etc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 game_over Posted October 5, 2014 Share Posted October 5, 2014 I don't think it matters much these days, it's all about content... but why would you need to put the nav underneath to avoid using z-index? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 pqt Posted October 5, 2014 Share Posted October 5, 2014 SEO parses the text and takes what it needs to generate a search result. How you layout the page in particular wouldn't effect the search results as long as the content it's looking for is found at some point. Search Engines use the HTML tags to establish what the page is trying to share in terms of information. This is my starting template. <!DOCTYPE HTML> <html lang="en"> <head> <title>Website Title</title> <!-- IVE GOT STYLE YES I DO, I'VE GOT STYLE AND SO DOES THIS PAGE NOW. --> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="" /> <!-- JERBASKERPTS --> <script type="text/javascript" src=""></script> </head> <body> <div id="site-header"> <!-- BRANDING BAR / NAVIGATION GO HERE --> </div> <div id="site-content"> <!-- CONTENT AREA OR WEBSITE CONTAINER GO HERE --> </div> <div id="site-footer"> <!-- FOOTER NAVIGATION OR CORPORATE LINKS GO HERE --> </div> </body> </html> I could very easily associate the markup with #site-header { position: fixed; width: 100%; bottom: 0; left: 0; } and that wouldn't effect SEO at all because it's just manipulating the mark-up being displayed not the code that's laying out the content of the page. Keep in mind that SEO is handled by reading he code output, the Spiders don't care for the design of the page. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Richard Grant
i have a website with the html written something like this..
wrapper
content
footer
navigation
usually iv'e written he html like this:
navigation
wrapper
content
footer
I decided to put the navigation on the bottom in order to avoid using the CSS z-index property
Would you say this is bad for SEO(search engine optimization)?
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