Will goog's bots see these links?

check out my Billiard Blog that is hosted on blogspot - i've figured out how to include my own dynamic content (the "recent forum topics" and the menu on the right are both dynamically updated from a DB)

My qyuestions is, though, will bots see these links? they are included like a javascript file:

Forum Topics:

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.billiardsforum.info/forum/syndicate.asp?method=last_post&results=10&bu=y&ld=y"></script>

and the menu:

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.billiardsforum.info/rhsMenuSyn11.asp"></script>

If yes, then im happy, but if no, what can I do?

 

Search engines can't see javascript links. Use php instead if you can.

 

the links themselves arent javascript - they normal straightforward links. the code is simply insterted in the blogger template via javascript....

 

The answer is no - there are no bots (or very very very few) that will digest JavaScript to figure out any text links (or anything else for that matter) in the complex goodness that JS encapsulates.

Here is a clue - do a "View Page Source" of your page. What you see there is pretty much what the bot will see. Do you see any Text Links as a result of your JS?

 

yeah thats what I was afraid of.

If I set the <noscript> tag manually, will they get that info?

 

I honestly don't know what that means, but view your source and see if it makes a difference. If you can see it in "View Page Source" a bot will most likely be able to read it.

 

yeah, it would show in the viewsource. <noscript>something</noscript> is used to specifyh what should be shown in the case where javascript is disabled in the browsing client.

 

You can use noscript to show some content to the search engines, that will work fine.

 

Just to amplify this suggestion - use PHP or any other server side method to make it available to the bots.