DHTML & Javascript

kiraz · 04-25-2006, 07:32 PM

Right now I am using a DHTML and Javascript menu system for my links. All of the URLS are included in an external .js file. Im thinking this is probably a very bad Idea for google and all search engines, although google indexed today and found most of my pages.

your thoughts?

edit: forgot URL

http://www.karma-web.com

thanks

bratwebdesign · 04-26-2006, 03:13 AM

If you are going to use DHTML and javascript its best to have it in an external file. That way the search spiders don't have to go through all of the useless coding.

Johan007 · 04-26-2006, 04:19 AM

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Originally Posted by bratwebdesign

If you are going to use DHTML and javascript its best to have it in an external file. That way the search spiders don't have to go through all of the useless coding.

Whoops sorry bratwebdesign that is wrong! It doesn’t matter if the JavaScript is on page or in an external file. What matters in terms of Search Engines is that the HTML still has a “a” tag with the “href” attribute visible in the HTML. Pure JS will not work. To make the markup semantically correct display the menu as a list item in the HTML and use CSS to style it with some JavaScript if you really needed it.

bratwebdesign · 04-26-2006, 05:18 AM

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Whoops sorry bratwebdesign that is wrong! It doesn’t matter if the JavaScript is on page or in an external file. What matters in terms of Search Engines is that the HTML still has a “a” tag with the “href” attribute visible in the HTML. Pure JS will not work. To make the markup semantically correct display the menu as a list item in the HTML and use CSS to style it with some JavaScript if you really needed it.

I was just saying if he is going to use javascript or dhtml to put the coding in an external file. I posted after I looked at the source of his page along with the js file he is using for the menu. The menu is put in a "td" tag.

kiraz · 04-26-2006, 12:39 PM

ah i see, my links are not in html form anymore, i guess i should change it. The links are acctually contained in an external file too.

bratwebdesign · 04-27-2006, 03:52 AM

kiraz - you can always put links to your other web pages for your site in the footer and leave the menu that you have there.

Johan007 · 04-29-2006, 05:04 AM

...sure as a quick fix use footer link but footer links can look ugly

kiraz · 04-30-2006, 10:08 AM

Yeah im thinkin ill just make a sitemap with all the links on it. It would probably work the best.