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Old 10-08-2010, 09:58 AM  
nico-t
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SE: content order in source code vs. css (what people see)?

It is known that for blogs, you want the dynamic post content being crawled first (=start of source code) and your static sidebar (with blogroll, categories etc.) last (=at least after the post content).


Here's the deal for a blog im making:

In the source code of the blog, the content column is first, then the sidebar.
The .css file turns it around so that the visitor sees the sidebar left and the content to the right.
But when you click source code, like i said, first there's the post content and then the sidebar.

I want to keep the layout how it looks with the left sidebar, so im wondering how in depth SE's look at css files? The content div has a float: right and the sidebar a float: left, and thats it. Will SE's look at this and decide that they index the sidebar first, and then the content? I personally find this hard to believe, since i think the hard coded source code is still way more important to SE's..... right? Experts, step inside!
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