Ask your client ...
"What is more important to you, getting a high ranking on a search engine
so potential customers (who may or may not become a real customer) are able
to find the site, or keeping the customers you already have by offering
site navigation that is easy to locate and use?"
Your question is not a web technical issue. It's a basic common sense
business issue. Anyone who has passed Marketing 101 should know that
keeping the customers you have, and keeping them happy is a Prime
Directive. It's ten times harder to bring back a customer you had but
lost, rather than find a new customer.
Technically you can have both by absolute positioning. The actual
navigation content sits at the bottom of the page, but CSS places it at the
top of the rendered page.
> I have a client who insists making me place the site's navigation at the
> bottom of the page structure and than positioning it at the top via CSS.
> His reasons of doing this is for search engine optimisation?
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