SEO and drop down menus

[Jordanl18]

My website uses drop down menus and I rely on these for SEs to crawl my entire site, but when I test my site at www.webconfs.com/search-engine-spider-simulator.php the items in the drop down menu are not being crawled and I assume not being indexed. I'm not sure if I am using the wrong tool or if I have the wrong code inputted into my site.

I really could use some help - my site is http://www.pgmintegrated.com


Thanks

[Web Gazelle]

Create a site map with static links to all pages of your site. Link to your site map directly from your homepage with a static link, not it the drop down menus.

[Immo]

You could use DIV tags and CSS to control the drop down menus instead which would mean the whole thing was crawlable.

[Web Gazelle]

That would work to. My suggestion is to help avoid re-coding an existing menu.

[Immo]

In that case forget about the menu and just do a site map then. Its generally better if the menu can be spidered but its not a must.

[charlesgan]

Originally Posted by Jordanl18

My website uses drop down menus and I rely on these for SEs to crawl my entire site, but when I test my site at www.webconfs.com/search-engine-spider-simulator.php the items in the drop down menu are not being crawled and I assume not being indexed. I'm not sure if I am using the wrong tool or if I have the wrong code inputted into my site.

I really could use some help - my site is http://www.pgmintegrated.com


Thanks

drop down menu wont hurt. to check, view the html source file. as long the links is there, it will work.

indeed 2 yrs ago i help company to dev company website. i choose drop down javascript menu. and the site get craw very well. main page PR4.. subpage pr3 etc. they are connected.

[trichnosis]

all big search engines follows href and src tags on a web page . if your links are line <a href="somethink.php?h=55656">some think</a> . it will be crawled

[Immo]

I always use CSS to control dropdowns, I try to never use Javascript if possible, the only Javascript I use is to stop people from putting my pages in frames or to stop image linkers (redirects them to my homepage).

CSS menus are also a bit quicker than Javascript because there is nothing to load, it already is, at least in my experience thats what I have found anyway.

[WorldwideTrading]

Originally Posted by Web Gazelle

Create a site map with static links to all pages of your site. Link to your site map directly from your homepage with a static link, not it the drop down menus.

I was under the impression that if my websites homepage was a PR5, the next level down will probably be PR4 (pages linked to by the homepage) and the level after that PR3 (Ones linked from the site map in your example).

Have you considered providing text links to the next level down in your websites structure at the bottom of each page.

Have a look at the third picture for what I mean, the first will show you the traditional menu.
http://www.aor.org.uk/new_site_1.jpg
http://www.aor.org.uk/new_site_2.jpg
http://www.aor.org.uk/new_site_3.jpg
This is from a site I have in development.