how to get page text above navigation text for better seo?

[ADD Coach]

Hi,

I've read in a few places that google counts the first 300 words or so that the spider sees on a website as more important than the rest for pagerank purposes, (not the most important factor I know, but a factor none the less).

Unfortunately when I look at my website http://www.addcoach4u.com in a search engine spider simulator i.e., http://www.iwebtool.com/spider_view

the text for the navigation items on the left hand side show up first before the individual page content. I'd rather have the page text show up first and the navigation show up last.

My site is build around a template with all other pages based on that template, with an external css file. So I've got 100+ pages with my navigation text before my individual page text.

I know a bit of html but am definitely not an expert on it.

Does anyone know what I need to do to my html to get my regular page text to show up first and navigation text last for the search engine spiders?

thanks

Pete

[khurramali]

what some people do is to use a right menu layout for their website design. That keeps the content first, then the menu links.

maybe some clever CSS might do the trick, but I am not sure.

It is also not a very good idea to have every page of your website to link to every other page of your website. You should catagorise them so that only the pages related to each other by subject or topic link to each other. You may want to check out a post on my SEO ROCK blog for more information on how to achieve this. http://www.seorock.com/2006/07/11/si...-of-a-website/