Do Javascript Links Get Crawled?

Can anyone confirm if the Major SE's would crawl the following link structure for internal pages?

<a href="javascript:openlink('/home', 'index.htm', '', false, true)">HOME</a>

Code (markup):

And if they do not follow these links is the other options submitting site maps?

The pages themselves have friendly display urls but the code uses jscript

LR

 

I'm not sure about the code you listed below but I know the general idea is javascript links cannot be crawled by SE bots. The only time this would be useful is if you didn't want the search engines to crawl certain links. This would be called VEO or Vistor Enhanced Optimization where you are catering to the needs of your vistors instead of the search engines. A sitemap is one option like you listed where the SE's can crawl that instead.

 

Lots of user-friendly stuff isnt crawler-friendly: flash, images, javascript

EDIT: Don't know how good is this, but you can try it: http://www.stargeek.com/crawler_sim.php

EDIT2: That tool doesnt seem to work properly. Oh well.

 

No that wouldn't be crawled as a link.

 

I ran the xenu link sleuth and I think the CMS gives a non java version of the link but you get a string that is about a mile long. Not too many parameters but does google have a character limit on links?

GM