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URLs are being called in a site AFTER users inform their names for mktg reasons (if they will, some simply claim their name and e-mail is a and a@a.com yet access the report nonetheless).
The fact is that URLs are genuinely being called inside a site yet GOOGLE won't acknowledge as it's not the tradidional href="... but through a Form
I thought of creating a very small hyperlink, hardly seen by a regular user yet would get it indexed, but after reading the problems it may cause to the whole site, I'd appreciate your more mature advice.
Regards,
if you want to keep people from the site unless they put in their email address, then you sure as heck dont want it indexed in google.
but, if you want the other pages linked, and dont want that certain page to have a link, then link it from another page in an obscured manner. it will get indexed, and your other particular page wont be effected.
Be sure to read Marcia`s WebmasterWorld Welcome and Guide to the Basics [webmasterworld.com] post.
Depending on how badly you really need the email addresses a register/login feature may be your best bet.
To get Google to spider your page you could build a sitemap and have that sitemap link to all pages. On your homepage put the link to the sitemap at an obscure place that is easily missed by most people.
Beware that using non spiderable internal links will still hurt your site despite the sitemap since you pass up lots of opportunities to use nice link anchor texts for your navigation.
Andreas
Less than zero, in fact, because:
(a) a large percentage of your site visitors are probably hitting the BACK arrow at this point
(b) if you start to use that list, you'll be unintentionally spamming some people and generating spam reports to your ISP
(c) now you're thinking about cloaking, and endangering what traffic you are already getting for free
My two cents.
That particula area in the site has interesting reports and we try to gather data from visitors for marketing efforts afterwards. When one notices bogus name/e-mail/phone numbers the records are simply ditched.
Regarding the Map approach, the site already offers one where those reports are offered AFTER the visitors having been asked for their data.
Based on your comments I assume your suggestions lie on having an area at an obscure and place that through regular HTML references those reports are offered for SE purposes. Apparently the current approach of using a Font with 1 point, the smallest available, is too risky.
Thanks you all.
