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Apr 19.2006

I have a website, and on some pages where I feature my products, there are links [B]on the right[/B] that provide further information about the product. If they are on the right-hand side of the page, is this ok from an SEO perspective? I thought it might be best if they were embedded in the body copy of the page, however my designer wants them on the right. Any thoughts? (I know it’s not great from a UI perspective, but the designer really wants them there.)
In addition, they are jump links (like used for FAQs when there is a very long content page) however, I think they should be links to individual pages. Here is a link as an example page:
[url]http://www.garymanufacturing.com/products/Chair_Covers.php[/url]
These jump links are also causing delayed page load, as there is so much on a page!

Can anyone comment on how these right-hand jump links would help/hurt SEO?

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@button_willowauthorApr 19.2006 — Hi - does anyone have any info on this?????? Anyone? Anyone? Is it a non-issue?
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@felgallApr 19.2006 — Search engines look at what is in the page and where things appear in the code. They don't care where things end up appearing on the screen.
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@JPnycApr 19.2006 — They don't even care IF things end up appearing on the screen. If you hide a link with CSS or change the font color of a text link to perfectly match the background color (making it invisible to humans) bots will still crawl it.
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@button_willowauthorApr 19.2006 — ok, fair enough, but have they been programmed to think its less relevant because it's on the right side, which is where most users don't look? Am I perhaps asking a question that is answerable only by the developers of the Google algorythms?
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@felgallApr 19.2006 — The search engines don't read the CSS and so they have no idea where on a page that the text will be displayed. They only know where in the source that it is and give higher priority to things nearer the start of the source.

While the search engines don't check [b]if[/b] your content is displayed on the page, having large volumes of hidden content may get you banned from a search engine if they ever find out.
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@pcthugApr 20.2006 — Yes, [I]invisible text[/I] is regarded as a form of deceiving spiders and therefore search engines usually take dramatic action on sites who choose to make there text (or more commonly, keywords) hidden from the human eye.

Anyway, search engines bots aren't human. They therefore can't literally judge a page on it's visual appearence, but rather see web pages similar to that of the [url=http://www.delorie.com/web/lynxview.html]Lynx Browser[/url]
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@button_willowauthorApr 20.2006 — thanks guys! Seems like it's more of a UI problem then. I appreciate your input!
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