http://www.oaknyc.com/ in the above link under for ex "men" if you click shop by brand, the brand links go underneath, or if u click shop by style various links go underneath. With out page reload. Thinking about implementing this on my site however but am concerned about SEO... so wanted to check in here first, to see if search engines have any issues with following these links, or could potentially look as as spam, since certain elements are being hidden.
I guess my question is not whether it will help website, but whether it will hurt website. And the links will be able to be crawled easily by google and not viewed as spam since there are certain elements being hidden on the page. Or should this be handled with a page refresh: click shop by caegory and the page refereshes with the categorys underneath and the brands not expanding, and vice versa. But then in this case i worry about duplicate content. help appreciated.
Site looks good, and I like the menu. Only issue is that there are so many brands that a new scroll bar moves the page a bit, but nothing major. (There is a CSS 'overflow' fix for that, I think.) I would think that spiders/crawlers will pickup the links inside the menu without having to open it. That is, as long as the links aren't hidden in an external JavaScript file. This is where a site map should help too. Also, check your stats for those links. And maybe add a separate 'click' counter for the menu. John