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Should keywords be closer to top of page in HTML for improved SEO?

I have been building websites so that in the HTML the content area appears above the header so the keywords appear closer to the top of the page. I was under the impression this gave you advantages when targeting keywords in SEO as the important keywords appear closer to the start of the HTML.

So instead of:

HEADER

CONTENT

FOOTER

The HTML is arranged like:

CONTENT

HEADER

FOOTER

The CSS is adjusted accordingly so the front end is still displayed in the correct order.

Is this given importance by Google in their search engine ranking or am I going over top and this is actually unnecessary?
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OK I am convinced now that the position of the content part in the HTML  has no specific advantage.
Thanks to all.