Google & pulldownmenu(javascript)

[Istvan]

Hi,

Does Google have a problem when I use the following pulldown Menu, as seen at [javascript.internet.com...] .
Pulldown Menu (Automatic)
This Javascript will display an ordinary-looking menu . Once a link is selected, the visitor is automatically taken to the website without hitting 'Go!' or anything. If you use this script, please leave a link to our site in the pulldown menu!

Does Google like or dislike the above way of linking pages together? Anyone know? How will it influence the pagerank?

Istvan

[paladin]

From what I remember Google does not like / know Javasctipt. What Google will see is one page without any links. A simple solution is for every link in the pull-down menu make sure you have a regular HTML link somewhere in your page.

Hope it helps...

[Istvan]

Hi Paladin,
thanks for your repy. Is it safe if, for example to place a dropdownmenu with all the links (which apparantly the SE can't see), and to make <A href / textlinks too, somewhere on the bottom of each page. Is that a good workaround solution to get Google like the pages and eventually the whole linking structure?

Istvan

[digitalghost]

Or you can create a site map and link to it from the index page. This has the advantage of eliminating multiple links across all your pages so you can focus your link structure on say, the money pages. ;)

If you have good navigation sitewide, replicating it for Google isn't necessary, in fact, I try to avoid it.

[paladin]

Hi Istvan,
Sorry it took me a while to reply, I just moved and it took me a while to set up the new computer here.

Another hybrid option, besides the text links or site map, would be to put the text links inside of the <noscripts> tag (I can't remember off the top of my head if it is noscripts or noscript).

[msgraph]

Google has successfully crawled all my links that are in jump boxes. The javascript is just there to handle the form code. The links in the option values are treated just like every other piece of html code.