location of body text on page - at top or bottom - does it matter for seo?
<p>hi - i'm just looking at the text on a redesigned homepage.&nbsp;</p>
<p>they have moved all the text to the very bottom of the page (which is quite common with lots of designers, i notice - i usually battle to move the important text back up to the top). <br /><br />i have always ensured the important text comes at the top, to some extent - does it matter where on the page the text comes, for seo?&nbsp;<br /><br />are there any studies you can point me to?&nbsp;<br /><br />thanks for your help, luke</p>
<p>google's above the fold page layout algorithm looks at how much good, helpful content is visible without scrolling:</p>
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<p>https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2012/01/page-layout-algorithm-improvement.html</p>
<p>there is often a struggle between designers and seos because it sure looks nice to have a big huge image taking up all of the above the fold content but if there is no or limited helpful text there then that's not good from an seo standpoint.</p>
<p>with that said, google will still index content that is below the fold. it's debatable whether it's given the same weight as content higher up on a page though. matt cutts from google has said before that a link that is higher up on a page is not worth any more than a link lower down on the page. however, some <a href="https://moz.com/blog/10-illustrations-on-search-engines-valuation-of-links">experiments</a> by moz contradict this.&nbsp;</p>
<p>this might be a fun experiment to do - create content both above and below a hero image and see what ranks best. i might even do that!</p>
<p>marie</p>
You are using position:absolute; Don't, it usually leads to endless problems.



Even if you had a real need to use it, why are you placing things at left 1400px!!!



This is right on the edge of the average monitor - how large is your monitor? I work with my browser open at a width of about 1000-1200px (note I didn't mention the size of my monitor). The main reason people have big monitors is so they can have two windows open next to each other, not so that they can run a browser window open at 2800px wide.



I suggest you start by looking at ordinary websites and studying the css. you'll discover that many sites use a wrapper div with a fixed width, while others use a wrapper div with a percentage width and a max-width, to prevent ending up with a huge long line of text 2500px long for example. Then they center the div using margin:auto. That gets the content in the middle of the page on the vast majority of screens, and browser viewports.



Don't lay out a screen using position:absolute. You are not painting pretty pictures on a screen, you should be using html and css to control the layout and check how the layout looks every time, by resizing the window looking for errors.



Also, a contact form needs the input boxes to be part of a <form>, so you'll have to read up on how they work. And a form needs an action, so you'll have to learn a bit about scripting, probably php. Hi, I guess it depends on your layout. Of you're using CSS then you need to set the left and right margin of your main container to auto. Please check example below.

HTML:

<div id="main"> test</div>

CSS: 

#main {

margin-right: auto;

margin-left: auto;

}

If you need to have a visual example for this, try opening a new HTML document using a CSS layout, you can do that by going to file>new>blank page> then select a CSS Layout for HTML.

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