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Old 02-19-2005, 11:26 AM
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Default Google vs Clean Coding

I have a pretty clean site, but the links are all JScript except the home page

Of course, google cant track them, so I am thinking of an alternative home page (a dummy that no human will ever see, we hope) that mimicks the real default page but with NO JScript links.. just the usual html ...

Thoughts please? other solutions? I know I am not the only one who has had to deal with this issue
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Old 02-19-2005, 11:32 AM
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Default Re: Google vs Clean Coding

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I have a pretty clean site, but the links are all JScript except the home page

Of course, google cant track them, so I am thinking of an alternative home page (a dummy that no human will ever see, we hope) that mimicks the real default page but with NO JScript links.. just the usual html ...

Thoughts please? other solutions? I know I am not the only one who has had to deal with this issue
Here's some info from Microsoft.
Sites That Use Javascript for Navigation
Search engines can't follow links that are within Javascript, so your site will not get spidered unless you also have some form standard HTML hyperlinks that they can follow. You should add some form standard HTML hyperlinks to all of your pages on each of your pages so that your site will be spidered properly. An easy way to do this is to create a site map page uses standard HTML links to link to every page on your site. Then add a standard HTML link on each page of your site that links to the site map.


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Old 02-19-2005, 11:41 AM
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Why don't you just write accessible code? AFAIK if you provide a href fallback for those cases where javascript is not available (SEs, small devices, WebTV ...), the spiders will have no problem.

If you would provide an URL, we could go into details.

Alex
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Use CSS you can get the same effects.
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Old 02-19-2005, 01:40 PM
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Hi ryugen,

Welcome to WebProWorld!
If the site in question is the one in your profile, then it looks as though Google has successfully indexed your site. The site:www.palaver.org query produced 8 HTML pages and a Flash file. If there are specific pages you wish the SE bots to crawl, why not add a link to a sitemap from the footer of your pages?

As Janeth pointed out, you could replace your image rollovers with a CSS alternative, but for the time being, it seems the main areas of your site are being indexed.

Paul
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