Google & Image Maps

[ToddW]

Hey Guys,

I`m developing 2 new sites which will be using a U.S map. The map will contain 50 image maps to pages within my site. ca.php, co.php etc. etc.

Can googlebot, and well other crawlers follow links inside an image map?

Also does, ca.php?page=1 through off the bots?

[Emancipator]

yeah google has a hard time with sessions. But it can follow a link whether its text or an image. I use sitemaps for many of my sites, but i mix in text so the spiders can feed on it as well as spider my links.

[ToddW]

Thanks good point about text too.
I will create a "State List" URL on the index page, which will have al ist of every state hyperlinked so that google can follow those very easily.

[Emancipator]

If you want to see some examples check my site. I love imagemaps, but imagemaps with text to help with the basic SEO.