Linking

should i link with text or as a link?

[humpingdan]

is it better to use regualr text links on a page as navigation or images with say a hotspot as worthy link, does this effect how google spiders my site? i know google indexes images of a site but will it index navigational menus? help me plz!

[ulstrup]

Use regular text, Googlebot does not follow imagemaps.

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[bhartzer]

Googlebot doesn't follow links in imagemaps? I haven't heard that before.

[Macguru]

>>Googlebot does not follow imagemaps.

I believe this is not correct. Most search engine spiders can follow links in image maps.

Text and alt text in anchors are better candidates.

[ulstrup]

Ok, maybe I'm just stuck in the past and being overprecausious, I still use additional textlinks when using imagemaps, just to be sure.