Pop up pages

New user needing advice

[korny]

I need a bit of advice concerning pop up pages and spiders. I have been asked to optimise
a site that contains a lot of pop up windows displaying text information on different subjects.
The page is layed out with a short description and a text link to each particular subject,
the user then clicks to view, it won't just pop up without there interaction,
My question is will the spiders be able to crawl the site including the pop up windows and
will I be able to take advantage of each window by using keywords, description etc?
The pop up windows use a 65% width with scroll bars, the customer insists on these,
and has small javascript coding to close the window.

Any help would be greatly received.

KoRny

P.S This is my first dip into your forum.

[IanTurner]

Some spiders may be able to spider the pop-up pages - it depends on how the javascript works.

On the whole though it is safest to assume that they can't and provide another means of navigation to that page. Possibly via a site map.

[brotherhood of LAN]

Since you are re-doing the whole site you might want to rid yourself of that javascript. I understand the approach the site has, i.e. one stop shop, click on a subject for more info sort of thing.....

If you were to keep it the same, id use some non-javascript links somewhere for a spider to follow, making sure that your pages are well exposed by these links.

If the jscript doesnt let spiders follow the links, then all that info behind the front page is invisble...

There has been previous posts about this, you might want to check out the site search at the top for "javascript links"

Welcome to WMW korny ;)

[korny]

Many thanks for the replies.
I may well add non javascript text links now.
I'll best have a re-think.

Cheers