Jump Menu Forms

[Dave548]

Hi, I am new to the group, wanted to say what a great website. Heres my question. Will most of the search engines spiders pickup read and follow forms, specificly jump menu forms?
Thanks
Dave

[grnidone]

Welcome to the forums, Dave!

If you mean javascript forms, the answer is usually no. However, I have heard there are a few cgi bin forms that a search engine is able to crawl, although, I have not personally used them.

The best bet is to put plain text links somewhere on the page...or, submit the site map page to the engine. That way, you know that the spider can get to all of your pages.

[Dave548]

Forgive me for being so new, I believe this is html correct? This is the jump form I was speaking about. Of course I took out the remaining url prior to the post, because were not allowed to to post an adult url correct?

<form name="form2">
<select name="menu1" onChange="MM_jumpMenu('parent',this,0)">
<option value="http://www." selected>
NURSES</option>
<option value="http://www.">JOIN</option>
<option value="http://www.">MEMBERS</option>
<option value="http://www.">TOUR</option>
<option value="http://www.">LINKS</option>
<option value="http://www.">WEBMASTERS</option>
</select>
</form>

[andrey_sea]

I don't think SE will pick up on your links in value="..." but that is just my personal opinion, don't have any proof.

[Key_Master]

Hello Dave548,

Some spiders (e.g. Googlebot) will follow and index those links in <option value=""> tags.