Spider friendly Pop-Up Menu

Web Gazelle · Share | #1 (**permalink**) 07-07-2006, 01:22 PM

Anyone ever tried to make a pop-up menu that is spider friendly? I am looking at using HTML and CSS to create a menu where the links would be in the code just positioned off the screen till the menu is has been moused over and the a timer would move it away ou the mouseout. Any tips or ideas that you can suggest to me to do this and keep it simple?

JuggoPop · #2 (**permalink**) 07-07-2006, 01:24 PM

like this maybe?
http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamici...rome/index.htm

vangogh · #3 (**permalink**) 07-07-2006, 01:42 PM

My personal favorite is the suckerfish menu. The JavaScript is minimal which may help spiders.

I think though anytime you add JavaScript of any kind you're putting up a barrier to getting spidered. Search engines seem to have gotten much better when it comes to reading JavaScript, but I'm not sure they're quite there yet.

My own solution when I want to use a dynamic menu is to provide an alternate source of text link only navigation usually as a menu in the footer.

Web Gazelle · #4 (**permalink**) 07-07-2006, 02:16 PM

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Originally Posted by JuggoPop

like this maybe?
http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamici...rome/index.htm

Perfect! You hit the nail on the head! I always say why try to code it from scratch if someone might have coded it already.

I agree with you vangogh. I do like to have simple static links in another location of the page to compliment the drop down menu and make the website as simple to navigate as possible.