Will links in a pull down menu get indexed?

Discussion in 'SEO' started by tyler9953, Aug 31, 2009.

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    I have a pull down menu for links see gowestins.com/medicare-supplement.html . Will those pages be indexed? I published that page about 4 days ago and it got published yesterday, but none of the 50 links on that pull down.
     
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  2. pokey

    pokey Active Member

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    As Google does crawl HTML forms, I see no reason they wouldn't get crawled. However, crawling does take time and I believe Google puts a lower emphasis on crawling through forms so I'll just observe it within the next month.
     
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    1st of all, that isn't a pull-down menu - each menu tab displays only 1 link. And yes, this will get indexed by search engines (provided you do a form of submitting to search engines) as the menu is natural text and not text within an image.
     
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    No problems at all with the Menu that you are having. It will take some time but will surely get indexed by the search engines.
     
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    pokey Active Member

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    I believe he was referring to the drop down menu circled in magenta:

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    Firebug is saying that that menu doesn't appear to be Javascript, but instead it's a form.

    Regardless, the URLS in the code are not wrapped in href which leads me to believe that it's going to prove to be a problem.

    Can you generate a site map and put a link to it in your footer? Then ping the sitemap with Pingler.
     
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    The search engines are NOT going to select each item from your dropdown of states and press the "Get a quote" button to find. So those pages are not going to get indexed unless you link to them directly with an anchor (<a>) element.

    PS: The "Dear Website Viewer" spam at the bottom of the page looks... well... like spam. Which wannabe SEO suggested you bold all occurences of keywords from your <title> everytime it appears in the text? It looks like a typical spam technique hiding all of that so called "content" below the fold. Personally I think sites like this look like crap.... but to each his own I guess.
     
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    sarahk iTamer Staff

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    have a look at how vbulletin (the software running this forum) drives it's drop down menus and copy that. they use hidden tables and there are tutorials on the web explaining how it all works. The upside is that the search engines index the links beautifully.

    If that's too hard you have to create a sitemap with the links elsewhere on your site.
     
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