Do spiders crawl popups?

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Do spiders crawl popups?

Trying to help a site that's about 90% popups

cgrantski

4:17 pm on Jun 8, 2005 (gmt 0)

For a site whose original designer put the main content into popup windows (one popup per product description page), I need to be sure spiders can follow the links and read what's there.

The links are programmed like this:

<li><a href="javascript:MM_openBrWindow('cics_power.htm','ops010','scrollbars=yes,width=640,height=480')">name-of-product-here</a></li>

Will this kind of code prevent important spiders from going further and reading the popup content?

(For various reasons we can't re-engineer the site just yet, and cannot check whether spiders are currently getting at these popups.)

Prolific

4:47 pm on Jun 8, 2005 (gmt 0)

I know Google can do it - i dont think yahoo or msn do. I have a JS function in my <head> that is doing the same thing as you wrote and google has indexed all the new window links.