One great thing to be able to do is to get your actual content to be seen first on the page. By being seen first, I'm referring to being seen first by the engines, before anything else on the page.

Generally a page is setup with a header area, a left column navigation area, and then the main body of the page. This method places your main body content, the actual guts of your page and what you want the engines to index you by, well down the page. In some cases ... way down the page, as far as the spider sees it. Understand the spider has to wade through all that code, and links, and content ... before it gets to what your page will be indexed and ranked by.

This little trick with a table is one way of altering that outcome and bringing your actual content up on the page and to be seen first by the engines when they read your page. Here is the code. Copy and paste this into your HTML editor and make it work with your site. I suggest you play with this for a while to get used to how it works.


<table width="80%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
<tr><td width="150" height="1"></td>
<td width="10"> </td>
<td bgcolor="#D9BBBB" rowspan="2" valign="top">
<p>Main body of the site. All of your descriptive content on the site goes within this area. This is the actual content that you have written to not only describe your products and services, but what the engines will rank your site by. They will figure out what your site is all about through this content. Why not make it show up first on the page and be certain that the engines find it?</p>

</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top">
<b>Left Column
Good Place for
Navigation to be</b><br>
ITEM1<br>
ITEM2<br>
ITEM3<br>
</td></tr></table>