How to Begin a Web Page

[yaelslater]

Hi Mozers,

At the beginning of a web page, is it better to have a linked Table of Contents of sorts to begin the page (bulleted list of topics that the page addresses that are made up of jump links to different parts of the page) or just start the page with sentences of content?

Is one approach better for SEO?

Thanks,

Yael

[EGOL]

I believe that the title tag is the most powerful optimization element of a webpage, and second to that is on-page anchor text links at the top of the page.

We are using on-page table-of-contents more and more.

We want it very high on the page, but we believe that it is very important to display our feature image with caption immediately.  And, an introductory paragraph should be above the TOC.   So, on desktop and mobile, the site presents as below...

ON DESKTOP

Title of Article

-- introductory paragraph --     -- feature image ---

-- table of contents ---

ON MOBILE

Title of Article

-- feature image--

-- introductory paragraph--

-- table of contents --