google indexing my pulldown select form?

not complaining though

[jamie]

i have recently added a pulldown menu containing a list of performers for an event calendar on our site.

<form action="/performers.php" method="get">

i was just searching for something related to one of these performers today and google had ranked my site with the following page

mysite.com/performers.php?pf=64

the only way to get to the above page is by submitting the form.

i've never seen that in google before? is this new 'intelligent' bot behaviour?

[vincevincevince]

it is possible that someone else has created an external link to that page - have you tried looking for backwards links to the page? (note it won't show all of them).

otherwise, do you have any more detail regarding the code structure used in the menu, so we can learn what works and what doesn't?

[jamie]

hi vince,

the pull down menu has only have been up online for 1 month and there are over 100 performers - i checked 20 at random, including some really obscure ones, and all these 20 had been indexed as mysite.com/performers.php?pf=**** - so i am sure there can't be external links to all of them.

it is a straight forward pulldown menu:

<form action="/performers.php" method="get">
<select name="pf">
<option value="139">Performer 1</option>
<option value="243">Performer 2</option>
<option value="35">Performer 3</option>
...
</select>
<input type="submit" value="GO">
</form>

the *only* way to see performers.php is to submit the form, there are no other links to this page.

[BigDave]

While I am still highly suspicious of it, I could believe that google would start following simple forms like a single variable select or a single set of radio buttons.