Re: CSS and search engines
Shalabh Pandey wrote:
> Mel:
> "Every page should have links to every other page, and the links should
> be found within the html code for the page"
>
> Doesn't that defeat the whole purpose of JS menus and CSS led
> content...these technologies developed so that u do not have to go
> through the tedious and impractical process of placing cross links to
> each page of your website on each page.
CSS helps you lay out a page and does not in itself cause any problems. In
fact there are a lot of ways that CSS enhances your SEO efforts, but that's
another subject. Using a JS menu helps you do nifty things like mousovers
without repeating a lot of tedious work. However, you also need to have
links elsewhere on the page. I believe that why you so often see another
menu at the bottom of the page, as with my own site
www.mhpcommunications.com
People also talked about a site map. That certainly helps -- having a link
on the home page to a site map that's done in html. But it has been my
experience that in general spiders don't like dead ends. So if you have a
site map that leads to a lot of pages, none of which have outbound links,
there's a somewhat limited benefit.
-- Mel
Received on Fri Apr 22 2005 - 20:47:04 CDT
