Internal linking in the navigation bar

anchor links vs a button

[automotivetouchup]

Hope this is a good place for my question.

I would like to know if you use a button in your navbar or textlinks. We all know about the benifits of keywords in the text link, but how does it apply in the navigation stream? If both are very clean to read(nothing fancy just a plain button). Is it a must for spiders like gg and ink on an seo point of veiw? Or is this a post florida problem?

[zgb999]

Avoid button links if you can. The spiders can follow button links but if you have a good anchor text in your navigation links the search engines know better what the pages they link to are about.

[nakulgoyal]

The link text really works well. Avoid buttons and stuff like that. People use Flash, and though Google can now read inside Flash, but still it's not recommended.

Better to use SEO Optimization techniques as much as you can but don't use any spamming techniques at all.

I would also suggest to try and get some one way (NON Reciprocal) Links to your website. The more you get, the better it is. They will have long term effect for you. But No Guestbook Links. No Link Farms. No SPAM Techniques. No Redirected Links etc etc etc. One way links will not disaffect your rankings. They will be always GOOD for you.

[automotivetouchup]

I have a good supply of inbound. I do link recip, but Most of my time is buying links from directories, and submitting, as well as emailing some personal website fanatics of the niche.

I am really worried about internal. I have some FP butttons that have javascript mousovers. The buttons have text on them, but by viewing source it only shows as an image. I need to change that I geuss!

Another internal linking question. I moved a page from /page.htm to /page.asp and The /page.htm would get quite some SE traffic so I made a redirect so the user would see the correct page. Will this hurt me?

[tolachi]

I am in a similar situation. From what I understand if the redirect is a 301 you should technically be fine.