Using <div> to please SEs and people?

[chrisJumbo]

I know if you have to ask, you are probably in the wrong, but I have to ask. :O)

We have a rates page where the people coming to the page are more interested in the rates tables. But for SEs, I want the descriptive text to be first.

I know that I can use <div>s so that in the html the text is first, but on the screen the tables show first.

Is this an okay use of <div>s or I should I bite the bullet and just put the rates tables at the top?

cd :O)

[chowell]

It sounds like your argument is Null...

The SE's like the content as high in the HTML code as possible.

If you can position the text DIV higher than the rates table without taking away from the user experience (ie: showing rates first visually), then I'm not sure what the problem is.

[chrisJumbo]

My one hold back is, is it gaming the system, too much? And of course that is relative, since SEO/SEM can be viewed as gaming, but it is done to "help" the SEs find the most relavent content (mine or my client's, of course) and there has to be a way to "grade" equal content.

Having the text at the top is one factor. The SE can easily and quickly figure out what the page is about, which is important when it is trying to index billions of pages.

The user doesn't care about the SE except they want it to help them find the most relavent content. When the user views the content, they don't necessarily want to wade through a bunch fo text, unless they were looking for a dissertation in the first place.

Quite a vicious circle.

cd :O)

[incrediblehelp]

Text above or below the table you will be OK.

[khurramali]

Use the comment tag to say what your code is about