{"id":681,"date":"2009-07-21T18:36:30","date_gmt":"2009-07-22T04:36:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rosalindgardner.com\/blog\/?p=681"},"modified":"2019-03-10T14:38:15","modified_gmt":"2019-03-10T21:38:15","slug":"website-design-should-navigation-be-on-the-right-or-left-side","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rosalindgardner.com\/blog\/website-design-should-navigation-be-on-the-right-or-left-side\/","title":{"rendered":"Website Design: Should Navigation be on the Right or Left Side?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a question that I received from one of our readers&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Hi Rosalind,<\/p>\n<p>I'm really enjoying your new book, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0071478132?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=rosgardner-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=390957&#038;creativeASIN=0071478132\">Make a Fortune Promoting Other People's Stuff Online: How Affiliate Marketing Can Make You Rich<\/a>&#8220;. I'm an experienced and somewhat successful dating affiliate myself, and I still have been able to find lots of useful information and tips in your latest book. Thank you so much for sharing!<\/p>\n<p>I did want to mention that I believe there's a small typo on page 113 &#8211; second paragraph:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>the left side is read before the right side. Therefore, place your primary navigation on the RIGHT side<\/em>&#8221; (Shouldn't it be placed on the left side?). Just wanted to mention this before your book goes into another printing.<\/p>\n<p>Very enjoyable book. Thanks again for being so helpful and generous with sharing your knowledge!<\/p>\n<p>Kind Regards,<\/p>\n<p>Rhonda Ray<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Thanks very kind for your question, Rhonda, and no, that wasn't a typo. <\/p>\n<p><em>From a reader's perspective<\/em>, I prefer to see content on the left and navigation on the right and that has certainly been the trend in site design for a number of years now.<\/p>\n<p>Too, you want to place site navigation on the right hand side of your blog (or HTML pages) so that search engines read your site content <em>before <\/em>they get to the often long and always repeated site navigation links. <\/p>\n<p>However, the simplest justification I can give for this is the way WordPress blogs and most WordPress themes are structured out of the box, with navigation on the right side. (see screenshot below of my <a href=\"http:\/\/101Date.com\">101Date.com<\/a> homepage with it's <a href=\"https:\/\/rosalindgardner.com\/blog\/studiopress\">StudioPress<\/a> theme loaded and the primary navigation outlined in red).<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/rosalindgardner.com\/images\/right-side-navigation.gif\"  style=\"float: center; padding: 10px 0px 10px 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\"\/><\/p>\n<p>WordPress blogs are known for their search-engine friendliness, which is due in most part to their dynamic nature. <\/p>\n<p>However, because the WordPress designers are also so search engine savvy, I trust that their choice to typically place navigation on the right side has a great deal to do with enhanced visibility to the engines. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a question that I received from one of our readers&#8230; Hi Rosalind, I&#8217;m really enjoying your new book, &#8220;Make a Fortune Promoting Other People&#8217;s Stuff Online: How Affiliate Marketing Can Make You Rich&#8220;. 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