Hi,
It is true,right or left the only impact in your SEO could be if it gives a bad user experience and increases the bounce rate. Maybe choose wisely the links in the nav bar so they are not to many and they actually point to webpages you want to get link juice to.

In theory when someone looks at a website tends to check more the left side, specially top left. check for website heat map on google.

What needs to be more visible, the navigation bar or the content? ... depends.

I don´t think that the great majority of customers will even realize that other pages in the niche have the sidebar on the other side. That is just because you are highly involved with your website and the niche and therefore even realize that.

In other words just a mater of design.

My personal opinion, I like right side navigation, looks more modern.

Sebastian

Thanks for the reply!

I would like to tell you more about these links.

I have a coupon agregattor website

There are an image, a button that I ask online shops to put if they want to apear in my site and don´t have a proper affiliate marketing programme.

The thing is that I don´t know how bad google sees this as many of my competitors do it and I am th eonly one that is penalized, just because I added a kexword for the image button.

What do you think about these links? I think they are fair as I promote them and their customers can find coupons for the shop in my site. But I am afraid google algorith does no see it that way.

Thanks!
Sebastian

Hi Ryan Kent :),

I got a problem with most of my important keywords they all went to hell some months after penguin. Google said that there was no manual penality. I know that the problem is that I have too many links with keywords.
Will changing this links with my url or brand will help? or should I delete them all ?

Since them I foccus on building non keyword links but still not working.