Page Optimization and Select Boxes ...

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Hello,

I have a site that for usability purposes I am considering changing a vertical list of links to a select box.

Would this hurt my rankings? What is the desired way to go for an optimized page?

Thanks.

Roy

[edited by: agerhart at 1:56 pm (utc) on Jan. 7, 2003]
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[agerhart]

How are you going to set up the select boxes?

There is an obvious benefit to having a text link navigation structure, as you can modify the link text and the search engine spiders are sure to follow your links.

[teresha]

Yes, if the select box is the only method of accessing the other pages your rankings will suffer. But there's no reason why you can't have both a selection box and a full set of text links (and don't forget a site map - they come in very handy for both usability and search engine indexing).