Importance of Site Map
I have several sites that use JavaScript navigation and they all have a site map for the search engines to follow. However, it just came to my attention that some of my sites were getting indexed and others were not. So, I took a look at my <noscript> tags and realized that they were using Meta refresh tags in the <noscript> area. (This is put in by the software I use to create the navigation - AllWebMenus). In one case, I removed that meta information and replaced it with the contents of my site map. Yahoo was then able to grab all of the pages of the site, but Google has only added two more pages.
The other site, I replaced that meta refresh tag with a link to the site map page. Time will tell if Google indexes more pages. Currently they only have 4 pages indexed of this site.
The ones that seem to have been indexed okay, I used a transparent GIF, which I needed as a spacer, and linked it to the site map page.
For those who don't already know, you can see how many pages Google has indexed of your site by typing in "Site:mydomain.com" where "mydomain" is your domain. Note there is no space between the colon and your domain name.
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