Content too buried in source code?

[SSFCU]

Our team is working on a refresh/redesign and am wondering if there's a quantifiable way of determining how high our meta data, H1 and paragraph should be in the source code. Or even whether I should be concerned with that. Our navigation will likely have dozens of links (we're going to keep it to under 100), and this doesn't even factor in the design elements. I am concerned about the content being buried.

Are these the kind of concerns I should be having? Is there a measurable way to avoid it?

[David_ODonnell]

I wouldn't be too concerned, Google is clever enough to identify page elements, like header, nav and content serparately.

Once the redesign is live, do a crawl as Googlebot within Google Webmaster Tools to make sure it can crawl the entire  page.

The other consideration you might look into is site speed, have a look at how the redesign impacts load time, you can compare within Google Analytics (Content > Site Speed report), and/or use an external tool like http://www.webpagetest.org.

[Chris.Menke]

Hey seosarah,

Here's a fun thread with 3 of Moz's heaviest hitters each weighing in on your topic--each with a bit of a different take on it...

http://moz.com/community/q/text-to-html-ratio

[SSFCU]

Thank you David. These tips are much appreciated!

[SSFCU]

Great thread, Chris! Thank you for posting.