Will the text in the menus be searchable by google

Poster: rajupvv
Dated: Friday February 3 2006 - 6:50:44 GMT

Hi,

Can some body please let me know if the text in the menus will be picked up by a search engines like Google.

If not please suggest what needs to be done to make the text in the menus picked up by the search engines.

Raju.

Poster: vikenk
Dated: Friday February 3 2006 - 13:43:00 GMT

Hi Raju,

Search engines cannot read the links in your menu because the links are in your the Javascript files, and search engines do not crawl JS files, as far as I know.

You have some options:

1) You can use the list-based menu module. Basically, you make an list with list tags, and the menu makes its structure based on your links. This makes your links visible to the search engine.

2) Make a Site Map and provide a link to the Site Map

3) Place a set of links in a <noscript> tag. This addresses two things: It provides an alternate menu for non_JS enabled browsers, and it makes your links visible to Search Engines.

You can go to my site (in my signature) and View --> Source to see how I've implemented the <noscript> tag.

Hope this helps.

Poster: Migru
Dated: Friday February 3 2006 - 13:43:11 GMT

Hi

rajupvv wrote


please read (and see the FAQs)

http://www.milonic.com/searchengines_milonic.php

a) you could place standard html links between NOSCRIPT tags
b) you could set up your menu based on html lists

There is a sample menu

http://www.milonic.com/listbased/

Michael

Poster: rajupvv
Dated: Friday February 3 2006 - 17:36:06 GMT

Hi Vikenk and Migru,

Thanks a lot guys.

Take care,
Raju.