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#1 (permalink)

Hi... the thing that spawned this query is when I was installing a DHTML drop down menu for a client, who doesnt care about SEO but I do, and was wondering how does that affect SEO? Is every component of the drop down treated just like HTML, or is it more hidden like a Flash menu?

This would of course, be followed by questions for JS apps, hava, and of course Flash, where I have heard now many SEO can be used for Flash apps... is there a resource somewhere online or something someone can tell me that can make me understand how SEO works with all this progresive web tech? Thanks!

P.S. I am a freelance web/graphic designer for over 5 years and have an intermediate knowledge of all aspects of web design, in case you need to explain something and dont want to go TOO basic!

#2 (permalink)

DHTML drop downs work fine with SEO, unlike a Flash menu which is pretty hopeless. With DHTML dropdowns, the menus are constructed from HTML <ul> lists, which are perfectly readable be SEs.

Flash is getting easier to optimise nowadays, there are plenty of good methods and tools out there, just search in Google for some. As for Javascript, I saw recently an interview with Matt Cutts and he said that Google is now reading Javascript...

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#3 (permalink)

1) DHTML Menu's can be crawled by all search engines.So you can use them.

2) If you are using Java Script Navigation Menu then Save your Js code in separate file on server. This makes easy for bots to crawl it.

3) For Flash Menu you should place your links in Footer so they can be crawled from there by spiders.

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