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Originally Posted by pgo
So, while anecdotal evidence isn't to be trusted, generally, I think it's fairly safe to say it has a positive effect.
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This is the problem.
It's difficult, if not impossible, to state whether your upsurge was due directly to the switch to C>N.
There's seems to be some anecdotal evidence to suggest that there might be a benefit, the vast majority of it years old, but there's also evidence to suggest that the benefit is questionable.
e.g.
A member of WMW states how he started out with C>N, then after a while, switched to N>C and experienced no dip in his serps performance.
I wouldn't have a problem with C>N were it not for the way that it 'breaks' what I consider to be the natural IA order of the underlying document (i.e. w/o CSS).
Search engines themselves tell us not to build to favour them, but to favour users. To this end, I feel that honouring the natural IA order is more important than any suspected benefit which C>N
might still offer (if any).
I'm torn over the issue, but I'm currently favouring N>C on the basis that IA trumps SEO.