[thelist] search engine question (redirect page)

[James Denholm-Price]

Hi Jelle & all evolters,

On Tue, 24 Aug 2004 15:46:50 +0200, Jelle Desramaults wrote:
> Normally when i have a frames page, i use the <noframes > tag to insert
> links to my individual pages so
> they will get indexed by the search engine spiders.
> But here things got a little bit tricky...
> What i do is i send my visitors to a frames page that best suits their
> screen resolution.
> I use a javascript for this, the scipt is sitting in my index.html.
> What it does is something like this :
> if (screen.width >= 1024)
>  {
>  window.location = "index1024.html";
>  }
> 
> My question is: Should i insert my links on the redirect page ?
> or should i insert them on the <noframes> tag in the frame pages ...
> in other words, do search engine spiders follow the links generated in my
> javascript ?

No, AFAIK. Using <noframes> sounds like a better solution.

Holy war territory <grin> screen size sniffing has been argued on
evolt, e.g. <http://lists.evolt.org/archive/Week-of-Mon-20040628/160822.html>,
and on css-d <http://archivist.incutio.com/viewlist/css-discuss/36946>

James