OK to put links to other pages i'm trying to get indexed on bottom?

[nadsab]

I just re did a site; on already indexed pages I added some new <a href tags with links to a bunch of new pages that I'm trying to get indexed for the first time.

I was wondering, some of my pages are long with lots of java script in them and huge tables (text only), but the <a href links with links to other new pages in my site are at the very bottom of many of these pages. Would the new links get ignored because they are on the bottom of the page? Is it important to have links to other pages that I want to get indexed near the top of the pages?

Thanx

[ericjunior]

in terms of actual page size google will stop crawling at 100k so anything after that limit has been met is not indexed - so careful with the javascripts as they do add up!

links at the footer are fine as long as they are text links, not images.

google does place a guideline on a maximum of 100 links per page - but this is a guideline and not set in stone but it is best to keep to it.

[Oaf357]

A way to ensure that those links at the bottom of the page actually do get indexed is to position them with CSS (if possible). That way the code for the links is actually at the top of the page.

[nadsab]

Thanks ericjunior

To save google time and get huge pages indexed, is there a script I can use to tell google to ignore images or graphics when it crawls my site? Like in robots.txt?

[nadsab]

Thanks Oaf357

Will google crawl separate .css file pages that have a menu it it to check for text links to other pages I want to get indexed?

Also, if I only have one .css file with all my inter site links in it that my other pages use for the links, how does this affect PR? Would having only one external .css file with links in it give me a lower rank than if I had the same links on every page right in the html code?

Thanx

[JayC]

Nadsab, what Oaf357 was suggesting was to use CSS positioning so that you can have the links appear wherever you want them on the page while placing near the top of the html source -- not that the links should be placed in your .css file.

[Oaf357]

Yea. What JayC said. And no google doesn't crawl inside CSS files (for all I know).

[nadsab]

OK Thanks.

[skipfactor]

I've had success in adding a full URL text link pointing to an unindexed new page placed at the bottom of my highest PR page that's happens to be 35K.

Freshbot grabs new links every time & has kept them indexed, but I make changes almost daily & PR>2 must be in place first IMO; freshbot won't grab new links on my lower PR pages--for now at least on this new 2-month old site.

[nadsab]

Thanks skipfactor,

Another question - my index.html actually has links to all the other pages I need to get indexed and it's only 57 K.

Is one page enough (the main page with highest PR) to get all the other pages indexed? Or does google want to see the same links on other pages in order to index them?

[skipfactor]

Googlebot will eventually do all of the work; make all of your links for your users ease-of-use.

With this new site, I just give Freshbot a nice Welcome mat with a "new product pages added" link section on my index somewhere.

Tried this approach on my lower PR site map and even though 64. hits it daily, he ignores the new links.

[Oaf357]

Interesting. Freshbot doesn't follow links on low PR pages? Is this confirmed?

[skipfactor]

That's my observation from new site with a PR3 index page, PR2 rest-of-site that was first indexed last Google update. It could be Freshbot weight given to the index page, or PR, or both I guess. I should reiterate that Freshbot hits all pages almost every day.

[Oaf357]

As it does with my newly added site but I find it following different links quite often (PR increase maybe). I can't install the Google Toolbar so I wouldn't know.

[nadsab]

So with fresbot and deep crawl, can deep crawl take place over two or three weeks? Because from what I'm hearing it seems as if several freshbots eventually equals a deep crawl. I'm wondering since google visits my sites just about every day and hits a few pages each day, sometimes many, if those visits will be included in this upcoming update or if i'll have to wait until the next update.

[Oaf357]

It depends. I know I've had pages move positions in SERPs due to freshbot but I haven't had anything added to the index due to freshbot.

Other people might have a different/better idea.

[deanril]

<<< Newby question >>>> the page sizes , do they refelect images aswell? From what I can tell my page size is 28k(when I use keyword Analyzer ect and Google says bellow my entry in the serps 28k))but with images 220k .

So will google find my links ok, because they are at the bottom(but they are href links).

Oh yeah whoops forgot something, using css (is that cascading style sheets?) you can do some repositioning, I use Dreamweaver MX, I think Ive seen that before in there, So I can make my links READ at the top, but show up at the bottom? If I understand you guys correct.