Do search engines see copy/keywords when it appears only at the bottom of a page?

[MarcieHill]

My client is looking to improve their SEO, and to date I've written meta data and made some initial recommendations. Thing is, on some of their pages, the body copy appears at the bottom of the page, past links and big, splashy images. My question is, will search engines even see that copy to crawl it for keywords?

Thanks!

[JamesCrossland]

Yes... but it'll likely give it less credence to the content above it assuming you think it's more important (as it's at the top)

You can leave it as it will be read, move it or I've seen some people do tricks with Java/HTML to show content at the bottome of the page first to crawl bots

[Alick300]

Hi,

IMO yes search engine crawl. Best way to check using Fetch and render that will give you all the details.

Important keywords should be placed within 100 words/ first paragraph**

Hope this helps.

Thanks