Go and find the homepage of one of your websites, one that you worked hard on and got it looking exactly how you wanted. Great work! Now use your mouse and right click and view the page source, still happy? This is the view that you’re most important visitor gets, the search engine spider.

The spider only sees the code so look carefully again and look where that carefully crafted text on the page is. I bet is somewhere down the code and more often than not its even after all the navigation links to the rest of your site.

If you were the spider what would you think of the page now? Odds are if you were that spider you would be slightly confused about what was important on the page.

Now don’t be too disheartened this common problem is very easily solved for most site owners by implementing a quick fix, one that id like to share with you now. In these days of complete acceptance of CSS we could have created the site and positioned the code layout how we wanted but for many sites the traditional table based layout will have been used…

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