: SEO - Move around content with Javascript Short version Can I move around content (text and links) with Javascript without affecting my rank in Google? Long version Menu with links push down

@Cofer257

As AurelioDeRosa stated, search engines are perfectly able to find your page content. The myth you've read dates back to the early days when Google would only index the first 100KB of a page (roughly 100,000 characters). That's no longer the case so it makes little difference where the content is in the HTML.

Regarding the Javascript thing, as a general rule moving things around won't harm SEO, because the content is still there without Javascript and search engines can see it. If it helps usability to do that then do so.

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@BetL925

I've read that It's good to have the content early in the code.


Where have you read this? It has no much sense.

Infact, Google (and I think all the other S.E.s) are able to recognise the template of a website and so, they will pay more attention to (what they recognised as) the content section of each page. It's true, for example, that they pay a (very) little less attention to the footer than the "content section" but of course don't matter where you put the menu and how many links are in that menu. Indeed, if you have pages that have several internal links it's a good pratice. The S.E.s pay more attention to those pages that have several internal links than the others because they interpret this as a sign of importance.

So, in conclusion, you don't have to worry about change the position of your menu.

Just to be honest I have not given any reference because I forgot where I have read this fact. Anyway I'm almost sure that it was on the matt cutts blog or this book "The Art of SEO: Mastering Search Engine Optimization".

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