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Spider friendly Navigation

This is a discussion on Spider friendly Navigation within the General Discussion forums, part of the vBulletin SEO Discussion category; I wanted to create a javascript menu for my navigation (because i wanted simple drop down menus instead of my ...

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    Question Spider friendly Navigation

    I wanted to create a javascript menu for my navigation (because i wanted simple drop down menus instead of my current image links) but then i read Robs great article

    Quote Originally Posted by rob
    • Using Dynamic Javascript, Java Applets or Macromedia Flash for site navigation..
      This is a regularly overlooked factor and is visible all over the web. Search Engine Spiders may be very intelligent at crawling web content, but they cannot index Javascripts. Any menu system done purely in Javascript is a disaster because search engines will not see those links and therefore your listings on search engines will be very very limited. This is equally true of navigation systems done in java applets and Macromedia Flash. Googlebot will see links in flash (I think the weighting in algorithms would be far less than regular text links), but I am not aware of any other spiders that will. Just because complicated site navigation menus may be easy for a human to use, does not mean spiders will be able to use (follow) the links.

      Many Javascript and flash menu's can be replicated almost identically using CSS and XHTML. If you insist on using a technology invisible to spiders for your navigation, then the golden rule in my book is to place normal text links (or a link to a site-map) in your footer (not invisible ones... lol) in order to give spiders a crawl path around your site.

      Extra info: Images are not as good as text for navigation and links. Search engines cannot see the context or relationship of the link and the page your are linking to if you use an image.
    "Many Javascript and flash menu's can be replicated almost identically using CSS and XHTML."

    Can anybody tell me where i can find a simple drop down menu which will expand by mouseover using css and dhtml?

    eg.
    Forums
    - Memberlist
    - Search
    - Team

    the "-" items are the ones i want to have expanded by mouseover on "forums"

    i hope you can understand my bad english

    regards,
    Diver

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    thank you so much, this is exactly what i was looking for

    now i will try to integrate the vbulletin style colors into this

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    oh does anybody know how to automatically use the vbulletin .vbmenu_control CSS class for the menu?

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