SEO Enhanced Wordpress Theme: CSS Magic SEO
Posted July 22, 2008 by Mister Knowitall

Move your content to the top of the page for better SEO with this neat CSS theme.

One thing I’ve found as I’ve researched SEO is that a number of people claim (1, 2, 3) search engine algorithms look at your page from the top down, giving a higher weighting to the content at the top in determining what your page is about and what keywords are important in it.

So what do we put at the top of our pages, our content? No. If you read a page, top-down from the <body> tag, you’ll find all sorts of stuff before the content: header graphics, image maps, navigational links… Some people even recommend making sure that in a multiple-column blog, your content is in the leftmost column because that keeps your content higher on the page.

But thanks to CSS we are not slaves to clunky table layouts. With a little CSS magic, we can put content where we want it in both the flow of the HTML document and the flow of the rendered page.