Using "Div's" to place content at top of HTML
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Is it still a good practice to use "div's" to place content at the top of the HTML code, if your content is at the bottom of the web page?
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Thanks guys. That was what I thought. But, it is always good to get some conformation.
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Hey
I agree with Dirk, just don't do it. It's not a good practice at all and usually your HTML should already be structured in such a way that the content is positioned at the right place so they can easily recognise where it should be.
Martijn.
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Don't think it's still good practice. Google bot has evolved from a simple txt browser to a kind of mini version of Chrome.
It is perfectly capable to assess where the content is located on your page. Trying to trick Google to think that content at the bottom is in fact on the top because it's appearing first in the HTML is not going to help.No real hard evidence - just my opinion.
Dirk
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