Fireworks hotspots

Will the googlebot read these links

[mikeD]

Just wondered whether google will pick up my links that are on a garphical html file created in macromedia fireworks ?

[kris]

Are you refferring to image map links? The last I heard google or other spiders won't follow image map links.

Please correct me if I am wrong.

[piskie]

I believe thats right, they don't follow scripted links although I understand some spiders are now able to follow Flash links..

[Macguru]

I think most spiders can follow standard image maps since over a year. SE using spiders that cant belong in some museum.

Googlebot follows links from text, graphic files, image maps, rollovers and Flash.

[tedster]

Yes, image map links are not a problem today for the major SEs. If you have a standard anchor <a href="page.html" ...more attributes...> you're in.

But your not in if the link is inside a javascript function <a href="#" onClick="..."> or <a href="javascript:...">