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nups4478
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Posted: 2008-Mar-03 05:37
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Hi,

I am creating a directory for chemical manufacturers/suppliers, I am not linking the category pages through hyperlink (anchor tag), instead I am using a javascript (which calls a function to do some math) redirect.

Now... my questions are:
1. will google, msn, yahoo, ask crawlers consider these js redirects as hyperlinks

2. will they follow these links to crawl/index these pages.

I know spiders have trouble executing scripts.



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Posted: 2008-Mar-03 11:07
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It depends on the way you embed these links in the JS. Though search engines parse the JS, they will not execute them. So if you bury the links in a pile of functions, they won't see any links.



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Posted: 2008-Mar-03 21:43
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The function should be server-side, perhaps coded in PHP (or ASP if you really have to). Then it does not rely on anything at the client end. Both browsers and bots will get the same page, same navigation, and same content.

Using JavaScript is generally a bad idea.


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