SE's follow noscript links?

[LunaC]

I'm thinking of adding a dhtml menu to one of my sites and would use a noscript tag with regular html links so that (hopefully) older browsers will see that. (In the original script the links are in a .js file)

Does anyone know if any search engine spiders will follow links inside a noscript tag and if so which ones?

I can't seem to find this out anywhere, any help is appreciated :)

[drbill]

Welcome to WmW LunaC.

This is something I am not to sure about.

lets see if I can get someone to help you here...

[jeremy goodrich]

I don't have any experience with this particular trick, either...but the logic seems sound.

[tedster]

I've only tried links inside a NOSCRIPT tag once, and no engine ever picked up the linked pages. Now I always include straight text links for any page I really want spidered.

I can't say for sure that engines always ignore NOSCRIPT content, but that was my one time experience.

[Brett_Tabke]

Yes, me and rc tested out noscript pretty deep. Google will follow the noscript section in depth. So will Ink. (didn't try it with alta or fast).

[Rumbas]

>Google will follow the noscript section in depth. So will Ink. (didn't try it with alta or fast).

I my experience they all follow the links contained in a noscript. Worked pretty good when Google started penalizing noframes a while back.

[glengara]

Rumbas, from what I gather, you're using <NOSCRIPT> as an alternative to <NOFRAMES> for Google? Still working well for you?

[2_much]

Does this tag work the same as the noframe tag?

[rcjordan]

>same as the noframe tag?

Yes and no. It appears to be indexed about the same. I'm not sure if links from either are spidered.

An important note, however, is that (depending on your demographic) the noscript content would be visible to as much as 20% of your traffic, those surfing w/ js off. On the other hand, it works in any html page, not requiring a frameset like noframes.

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I believe IE5 would mask a noframes section if it was used in a non-framed page while NS made the noframes content visible. I stand to be corrected/updated on this.