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Benefit of using the NAV tag for web menu

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The <nav> tag is introduced by HTML5 which defines a section of navigation links. Not all links of a document must be in a <nav> element. The <nav> element is intended only for major block of navigation links.

The major search engines such as Google and Bing will see NAV as containing the structure of your website, and you will get an ACCURATE extended listing in the search engine for your main site entry. 
 
The NAV tag states clearly that these are the main pages within the NAV tag. Otherwise search engines such as Google may randomly choose to list different pages. 

It also helps with BOILERPLATE repetition. Search engines such as Google know this is a repeated element and will not penalize your page rank for duplicate content.

Tony  11 years ago   viewed: 14599    

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Thanks for sharing this info.

As menucool has declared that the menu script has made the nav tag working in all browsers (I have tested it in IE7 and IE8, it is true the menu is working well in those browsers), it is good to know that it is safe to use it.

J Lee   9 years ago

   

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