# element above Menu - Is there any SEO Value to it
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Is there any Value to having the H1 element above the MENU in a Typical Application ? My intention is to tell the "Bot" that the H1 element is more important than the Menu Items .
Are there any examples of such sites . The closest that I have seen is (NOT MY SITES)
http://www.airfarewatchdog.com/
and
Here they (second link) they have H1 above the Bread Crumb ( they dont have any menu though).
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Hi Chaits
I generally agree with Kevin about the user experience. Its always more important to please your users than Google.
Having said that, we did experience a quite significant increase in rankings when "moving" a menu. In our case the menu was a "modern" style dropdownmenu with additional texts to describe each menu item. So when creating a landing page for the keyword "Malmo" texts about the other pages was actually located above the actual text about the keyword "Malmo".
You can see an example here:
http://www.meresverige.dk/rejser/malmo
What we did to solve the problem, and to also make a better user experience, was to load only the first level in the menu at loadtime, then fill in the actual dropdown with a simple AJAX call. This way the actual keyword content comes higher up on the page, and the landing page is not "poluted" with other keywords and texts from the menu.
Over and out
Fredrik
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H1 means "look at me" no matter where it is.
However it looks kindof strange to have it above the menu anyway.
I would say most of the sites are placing the h1 under the menu but if your site, from a user perspective (usability), can accomodate it above then go for it Although I doubt it will give your on page SEO value more weight.
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First thing to focus on is the user experience as everything is secondary. Prominence and H1 are factors in SEO, but are not weighed as high as they once were.
Typically a heading would be under a menu, and I would stick to this.
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