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Originally Posted by Web-Design-Guy
Let us know the outcome of your experiment (assume you want bots to read the content of the footer first, right?). As it happens, on our site we do something similar - but in reverse. We have a line of 'promotional text' that appears on the page above the h1 tag and main content but in the markup we've put it in below.
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Bots don't "read" anything; they merely fetch a page, cache it, and then go get another one.
When that cached page is eventually indexed, the indexing engine assigns it to a processor for parsing; it does not "read" it in the sense that you mean. In fact, the parser doesn't care about the order, so long as it's unambiguously parsable.
What evidence is there to demonstrate that the indexing engine weights content according to its position within a page?