Form handlers with hypertext reference

I've read that form handlers get ignored by Google and other SE's. Does this apply to all form handlers? What about a form handler with a hypertext reference? For example:

<a form name="pass" method="get" action= </hypertext Reference href="http://pbbg.wikidot.com/"">PBBG</a>

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What is your experience with this?

 

Is that even valid Html?

That is the weirdest looking chunk of code that I have ever seen.

Either way, this is probably a question that you should ask in the Google or Misc. SE forum.

 

Valid? I don't know. Does it work? Yes, you can see it working here.

http://pbbg.wdfiles.com/local--files/code/nwk.html

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Is this a Google only question or doesn't it apply to all SE's? Or are you saying it will reach more readers there? Should I just double post or ask someone to move this thread? Sorry, not sure how things work here yet.

 

Not valid:

[Invalid] Markup Validation of http://pbbg.wdfiles.com/local--files/code/nwk.html - W3C Markup Validator

That line of code is not a form handler, at least, not in my opinion. It is a malformed hyperlink. It acts like a hyperlink and takes you through to http://pbbg.wikidot.com/

I think you need to revise your code. Not sure what you are trying to do on that page, but the code should look similar to this:

<form name="pass" method="get" action="http://pbbg.wikidot.com/">
   ...form elements
</form>

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Of course, as far as I can tell, the action Url is NOT a form handler.

The basic question of whether a form handler gets ignored by Google, or any other SE, I do not know. The question is probably a moot one at best. Form handlers have one function, the handling of forms. There is no reason for it to be indexed in any search engine because there is no intrinsic value there.(ie: no content to be indexed).

 

Right, except that in this case, the content is a backlink that appears to have anchor text.

I guess the only way I'll know for sure, is to attempt to create an isolated page using only the above code as a backlink source then look for indexing.

BTW, I was not attempting to do anything that with that page shown above, I only used it as a sample to show that valid html or not (apparently not), it does seem to work for the user.