Does google Follow....

Discussion in 'Google' started by tentwenty, Mar 9, 2009.

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    Does google follow links in form buttons? The form button is no function in any way just leaves to another page.

    and if google does do all the SE's fellow form buttons?
     
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  2. drphd

    drphd Guest

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    No, google does not by my means follow those submit your email or etc buttons, but just to be safe you could use nofollow and noindex on the page you are redirecting them if you need to hide it from the public..
     
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    Must be an <a href> tag
     
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    vansterdam Notable Member

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    Yep I agree with the comments above. The Google spider is not smart enough to submit forms to discover new pages. Of course you could change that submit button to an actual graphic that is directly linked to that page. If you still need the form submitted, you can add an onclick event for the graphic.
     
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    edual200 Active Member

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    the guys above are incorrect, yes it does follow forms...
    example
    <form method=post action='thispage.php'

    that does get followed and indexed
     
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    yep google is dumb lol
     
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    While I haven't heard any news on this issue for some time, about a year ago, Google announced that they would try to crawl forms that use the "GET" method on some sites. It sounded like it might have been experimental, but you should probably note the possibility of Google crawling any such forms and adjust your robots.txt file if necessary. The announcement is at http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2008/04/crawling-through-html-forms.html
     
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