[thelist] Google's crawler question
apathetic
apatheticgenius at gmail.com
Thu Nov 4 09:27:03 CST 2004
On Thu, 4 Nov 2004 16:58:21 +0200, David Travis <dwork at macam.ac.il> wrote:
> I have a site, which all links from it's homepage to inner pages are based
> on JavaScript's location object (don't ask why.).
Why?
> I understand that Google's crawler
> does not identify this type of "link" as a lead to inner pages of the site,
> am I right?
True, Google won't execute the Javascript. Try this sort of thing as a fix:
<a href="innerpage.html" onclick="yourJsCode(); return false;>
The link will be followed by spiders, but normal users who click the
link will get only the effect of the Javascript.
Tim
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