Recently my website has been crawled using this layout and all I see in the beginning is the MENU items instead of the beginning of the the content of my page. All my pages are crawled like that.

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I think this has to be fixed. Here is some advice I got on how to fix this issue.

You could also play with css and the z-index property (or absolute
positioning right down to the pixel) and rearrange your page source so
that you output the top menu as a div from the bottom of the source
code but overlay it in the right spot so that visually to humans it
comes where it currently does but when a robot crawls that content
comes at the end. A bit tricky to do if you're not used to this.

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dman commented
Status: Active » Closed (fixed)

If you've got a patch that does this safely for all browsers, bring it on.
Otherwise, regurgitating suggestions from SEO pundits who've not tried to actually DO what you suggest in a big selection of browsers isn't really constructive.
Show a browser-safe proof-of-concept of your fix and it's worth looking at. Until then, it's SEO hot air. Absolute positioning is bad mojo for truly dynamic content.

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okday commented

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I have the same problem. Have you find a solution?

thank you.