Skip To Content Links and SEO

[DigiFundi]

Hi,

I was wondering if a Skip To Content link at the beginning of a page would have a similar effect to placing the content of a page before the navigation for a saerch engine to spider?

Could a skip to content link improve SEO compared to not having this option and forcing the spider to go through the navigation before content?

Thanks for your opinions.

Regards,

DigiFundi

[seobook]

search engines read source code linearly I believe.

Google hired people from Mozilla and might be trying to adjust their algorithms to see how pages render though.

the jump to content link you stated probably would not have the effect you were suggesting.

you can use a blank table cell or css to put the content ahead of navigation

[DigiFundi]

you can use a blank table cell or css to put the content ahead of navigation

Thanks for responding. I'm not sure what you meant by using a blank table cell?

DigiFundi

[seobook]

<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5">
<tr>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
<td rowspan="2" valign="top"><p>Content</p></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top"><p>Navigation</p></td>
</tr>
</table>

[DigiFundi]

<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5">
<tr>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
<td rowspan="2" valign="top"><p>Content</p></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top"><p>Navigation</p></td>
</tr>
</table>

That is clever. I never thought of it like that. Thanks for the tip ! :)

DigiFundi