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Search Engine friendly navigation menu?

Discussion in 'Search Engine Optimization' started by Johnburk, Dec 10, 2005.

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    What are search engine friendly navigation menus? Do you have an example?
     
    Johnburk, Dec 10, 2005 IP
  2. hans

    hans Well-Known Member

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    certainly many different solutions that are all fully SE friendly - best is NO javascript - but plain HTML links
    either in tables on each page

    example
    http://www.a1-outdoors.com/

    on the right side you see "Site Menu"
    for smaller sites with few links that is a fully valid solution

    or my preferred method in SEO friendly frames
    example

    http://www.kriyayoga.com/english/on_your_wings/frames_index.html
    then see left or top frame
    i have a fedw thousand files to link - hence prefer a method that can be extended as the site grows or subdirectories are created

    see also old thread about frames
    http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=24944

    both methods work perfect for ALL major search engines
    my SE friendly frames-strcutrure works perfect since more than 5 years

    there are however wrong ways to make frames - for example when frameset file is named index.html
     
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    Thank you hans,

    Are there drop down menu sollutions?
     
    Johnburk, Dec 10, 2005 IP
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    milonic.com has a good drop down menu, its used at the site in my sig.

    Make it search engine friendly by adding a text only menu in <noscript> tags.
     
    dave487, Dec 11, 2005 IP
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    Here's another great resource to help you make a SE friendly dropdown Nav

    http://www.alistapart.com/articles/horizdropdowns
     
    sSEO, Dec 12, 2005 IP
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    Everyone thanks a lot, I am going to check your links out.
     
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    However, I strongly suggest against drop-down menus unless you can view the links in the HTML Source Code, which search engines will always look at.

    If you can't view links in the source code your dropdown menu, then I strongly urge that you don't use it.
     
    sixty6, Dec 12, 2005 IP