SEO Tycoon

**orionoreo** · 08-19-2009, 02:14 PM

I couldn't find anything solid on this topic which means its probably a myth. Either way, I'd like to hear it from the experts here.

Is it SEO valuable to code the site to have the content outputted first then everything else?

**chrishirst** · 08-19-2009, 03:37 PM

it's a myth!

**bigcat1967** · 08-20-2009, 11:11 PM

I'll second what Christ said - it is a myth. sorry man.

**edgray** · 08-21-2009, 10:21 AM

there was once a time when Google only parsed the first 100k or so of a page, due to limited storage space, so in that case it made sense to get your content rendered first if you had seriously bulky pages. However, I recently watched an interview with Matt Cutts who said this is no longer the case.

I'm guessing that nowadays it doesn't make a difference. It's a myth.

You could of course test this theory. On a site I worked on last year, I had a 2 column design, with an image column on the left, text content on the right. At first I had the left column render first, and then the content column. Once we'd got to a good position in the SERPs I then swapped them over in the code so the content rendered first. Low and behold, no difference in ranking.

Try it with your site and let us know what your results are.

**samueldarwin** · 08-21-2009, 12:08 PM

Yes i do accept with experts here. It should be a myth...

**DailyCashSaver** · 08-22-2009, 09:45 PM

Content is most important thing your going to make anymoney doing anything else.