Search engines and JavaScript menus

[Toe]

I've came across rather interesting article about how search engines behave with JavaScript menus. It is Search engines and your fancy menu: will they escape? (http://www.websiteceo.com/articles/js-indexing.htm)

[Paz]

This is a great find but I wish I could find the source code for the javascript some some are actually pretty search engine friendly, but it takes longer for the SEs to decode them eg onclick( parselink("/sitemap.html")) will usually work ok, but the scripts that do more processing eg onclick( parselink(url_2)) won't be.

I also see that some of the js linked pages are cached in Google now.

Anyway, I always recommend CSS dropdown lists and here's the best one I know of;
http://www.cssplay.co.uk/menus/final_drop.html

Cheers,
Paz.

[kutsarita]

nice one.. i've seen one of these css menus...

[Paz]

It's based on the Suckerfish dropdown menu but it has better cross browser support.

[BSolveIT]

If your into .NET development, there's great tools and components for ASP.NET, and windows application development, from Telerik. They have several different types of menu components, all of which produce search engine friendly menu's. Personally, I particularly like the PanelBar type menu.

There's demo's of all their controls and components here:
http://www.telerik.com/demos/aspnet/Controls/Examples/Default/DefaultVB.aspx

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[Mit]

but i always suggest my clients to have a html navigation - no javascript in navigation... most JavaScripts are not readable by SE's....

[Toe]

[QUOTE=Mit]but i always suggest my clients to have a html navigation - no javascript in navigation... most JavaScripts are not readable by SE's....[/QUOTE]I like the way myths are created and spread :) The article says about JavaScript in navigation

[Mit]

[QUOTE=Toe]I like the way myths are created and spread[/QUOTE]

I m not getting you. Please specify your words.

[Toe]

Have you read the article? If yes, it is strange to here that most JavaScripts are not readable by SE's....

[Mit]

[QUOTE=Toe]Have you read the article? If yes, it is strange to here that[/QUOTE]

I have already read it buddy!!!

Let's be true to ourseleves, Have you done SEO on any website which have javascripts in navigation ??

[Toe]

[QUOTE=Mit]I have already read it buddy!!!

Let's be true to ourseleves, Have you done SEO on any website which have javascripts in navigation ??[/QUOTE]
it depends on JavaScript and it is depicted in the article.

SEs can read some JavaScript so not always you need to sacrifice you beautiful design

[Mit]

[QUOTE=Toe]it depends.[/QUOTE]

Yes!!! it depends, but that's also true that most of js scripts are not readable by SE's.