I'm working on an update to a website and would like to incorporate a nice, easy to use javascript navigation tool but don't want to compromise our good serps or risk banning by doing something that will appear sneaky.

I understand that spiders don't go through the javascript and am wondering if placing basic text links under the area where the navigation bar will appear will hurt anything. What I'm considering is using a text link to a #nav anchor at the bottom of the page where basic text navigation appears or a link to a site map or text links for the top level items in the javascript menu. This would only be visible to those without javascript enabled, search engine spiders or those viewing the source code. Is this likely to be considered a questionable act?

I'm sure many of you looking at this posting will recommend using CSS (which I'm working on) but I'm needing to implement this sooner rather than later.

Thanks in advance for your input.

mktgbill