Re: Make text that's low in the HTML appear high in the page

Sorry Google won't rate the page based on that.  Google is using DMOZ
editing and using the hand written description of the site to base it's
search on when the pages get spidered.

>I'm looking for an HTML trick to put paragraph C at the top of the
>page, despite the fact that paragraph C comes after paragraph B within
>the HTML.
>
>That's because I want search engines to see paragraph B first. I know
>Google & others will rate text based in part on height within the page,
>and I figure that "height" must be based upon height within HTML.
>(Google bot has no eyes!) I could be wrong, but humor me unless you
>know for sure otherwise.
>
>No, I don't have an example url, b/c this page doesn't exist yet!  :-)
>
>Anyway, I've come up with a different cool HTML trick (table tricks,
>really*) to make things appear higher to the eye than they were in
>HTML. However, I don't have a solution to this particular problem. I
>could write out paragraph C with JavaScript, position it with CSS, or
>include it as a SSI, and I think both of those would be ignored by
>search engines (making paragraph B more prominent). However, I don't
>want to use JS for this trick, and don't have SSI (boo!). Sorry. I may
>entertain CSS-P, but I think I want it to work in version 4 browsers.
>
>So the page I want is something like:
>
>Page Title
>Menu Bar
>
>Paragraph C
>Paragraph B
>
>
>While the HTML would look like:
>
>Page Title
>Menu Bar
>Paragraph B
>Paragraph C
>
>
>TIA!
>c
>
>* p.s. If you look at my company's page (http://www.scanalytics.com/),
>you'll see that the vertical navigation table looks like it's parallel
>with the body of text. However, it's at the very bottom of the HTML.
>
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