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I can only imagine that is is the way that the developer has built this top nav, and the only thing that I can see that is even remotely out of the ordinary is the following statement:
<body onload="window.setTimeout('cycle();',3000);(loadbanners());(urlswitch());">
Could this for some reason be blocking G's path through the navigation?
Everything else seems pretty standard except for this, can anyone tell me what it is used for and if they have experienced the same problem?
Cheers
Nial
A friend of mine has his website SEO'd by some fly-by-night SEO company and they have done something very strange.
They have created default.asp as the homepage (with pr0) and put this code on it (nothing else)
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0;url=index.asp">
</head>
<body>
</body>
</html>
which refreshes to the index.asp (pr4)
Why on earth would they do this, will it do more harm than good?
Nial
the asp scripts can cause PR to not be passed. Here is Googleguy's comment on .asp and etc. scripts:
So what's the problem with a session id, and why doesn't Googlebot crawl them? Well, we don't just have one machine for crawling. Instead, there are lots of bot machines fetching pages in parallel. For a really large site, it's easily possible to have many different machines at Google fetch a page from that site. The problem is that the web server would serve up a different session-id to each machine! That means that you'd get the exact same page multiple times--only the url would be different. It's things like that which keep some search engines from crawling dynamic pages, and especially pages with session-ids. Google can do some smart stuff looking for duplicates, and sometimes inferring about the url parameters, but in general it's best to play it safe and avoid session-ids whenever you can.
Google's Webmaster Technical Guidelines:
*Use a text browser such as Lynx to examine your site, because most search engine spiders see your site much as Lynx would. If fancy features such as JavaScript, cookies, session IDs, frames, DHTML, or Flash keep you from seeing all of your site in a text browser, then search engine spiders may have trouble crawling your site.
*Allow search bots to crawl your sites without session IDs or arguments that track their path through the site. These techniques are useful for tracking individual user behavior, but the access pattern of bots is entirely different. Using these techniques may result in incomplete indexing of your site, as bots may not be able to eliminate URLs that look different but actually point to the
