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| DaveBlues 2004-08-23, 7:16 pm |
| How do I make script invisiable to Spiders?
I have a Nav-Bar with that uses drop down menus (as does the Macromedia bar
above) and unlike all my other scripts that I can hide outside the head and
body tags, nav-bars I create in fireworks generate a huge amount of script that
will only work if placed within head or body tags.
And I use a PHP "includes" tag to insert the navbar into my pages (sometimes
getting duplicate head, body or html tags!)
When a search engine spider comes by I'm sure it reads two lines and runs away.
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| darrel 2004-08-23, 7:16 pm |
| > How do I make script invisiable to Spiders?
They usually are by default.
> I have a Nav-Bar with that uses drop down menus (as does the Macromedia
bar
> above) and unlike all my other scripts that I can hide outside the head
and
> body tags, nav-bars I create in fireworks generate a huge amount of script
that
> will only work if placed within head or body tags.
While you can take the FW/DW javascript and place it in an external file,
you really shouldn't be using those scripts to begin with. They tend to be
bloated and inaccessible. Consider using something from projectseven.com
instead
> And I use a PHP "includes" tag to insert the navbar into my pages
(sometimes
> getting duplicate head, body or html tags!)
If you're getting duplicate tags, then you're doing it wrong. Also, includes
don't hide anything from the spider. Includes are included before the page
is even sent to the browser.
> When a search engine spider comes by I'm sure it reads two lines and runs
away.
Well, inavlid markup isn't usually a good thing. ;o)
-Darrel
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| Josh Johnson 2004-08-23, 7:16 pm |
| Murray *TMM* wrote:
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> If you want to continue working with DW, this is a very bad method, and will
> get you into trouble.
Just to be clear. Using PHP "includes" isn't bad. Placing navigational
links only inside javascript is. Also avoid FW nav code, as it's a
bloated beast. Check out some of the leaner code from ProjectSeven instead.
- Josh
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| Murray *TMM* 2004-08-23, 7:16 pm |
| Josh:
Thanks for the clarification. What I was referring to was the use of
includes containing redundant tags into the parent page.
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"Josh Johnson" <josh.johnson@nospam.sun.com> wrote in message
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> Murray *TMM* wrote:
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> Just to be clear. Using PHP "includes" isn't bad. Placing navigational
> links only inside javascript is. Also avoid FW nav code, as it's a
> bloated beast. Check out some of the leaner code from ProjectSeven
> instead.
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> - Josh
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| James Shook 2004-08-23, 7:16 pm |
| Murray *TMM* wrote:
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> But what will happen is that they'll look at your page, discover that it
> contains no links (they are all embedded in your menu's javascript) and
> index your site as if it were this single page (I am guessing that you have
> no ordinary HTML links on your page).
You can use <noscript> (and probably should) to provide a spider-visible
menu to all of your pages.
--
James M. Shook
http://www.jshook.com
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| DaveBlues 2004-08-23, 7:16 pm |
| Hi, Murray.
Thanks for the advice guys.
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| DaveBlues 2004-08-23, 7:16 pm |
| Okay, you got me there, but it sounds exactly what I'm looking for.
What is <noscript>?
Also, isn't there a "robots.txt" file I can use that tells bots what to follow?
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| jsedrick 2004-08-23, 7:16 pm |
| <no script>
Hello to the non-Javascript Browser
</noscript>
Noscript lets you put information that the non-Javascript Browsers or Spiders can read.
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| James Shook 2004-08-23, 7:16 pm |
| I usually put this in the end in a <div> that will be displayed only if
JavaScript is turned off. Here's an example:
<noscript>
<div id="noScriptLinks" style="position:absolute; visibility:visible;
width:150px; height:225px; z-index:30; left: 8px; top: 25px;
background-color: #E2DBCE; layer-background-color: #E2DBCE">
<a href="page1.html">Koffie</a><br>
<a href="page2.html">Brain</a><br>
<a href="page3.html">Head</a><br>
<a href="page4.html">Marok Tabak</a><br>
<a href="page5.html">Platform</a><br>
<a href="page6.html">Writing</a><br>
<a href="page7.html">Navigation Device</a><br>
<a href="page8.html">Porthole</a><br>
<a href="page9.html">Rock on the Beach</a><br>
<a href="page10.html">Tarn</a><br>
<a href="page11.html">Device</a><br>
<a href="page12.html">Big Wolf</a><br>
<a href="page13.html">Goldfish</a><br>
<a href="page14.html">Tunnel</a><br>
</div>
</noscript>
</body>
</html>
I don't know whether or not you can direct spiders to
unlinked-to-form-the-index-page directories and/or pages via robots.txt.
--
James M. Shook
http://www.jshook.com
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| .: Nadia :.TMM :. 2004-08-23, 11:14 pm |
| Here's a little info I have on robot.txt that may be of interest:
http://www.dreamweaverresources.com/seo/robottext.htm
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"DaveBlues" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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> Okay, you got me there, but it sounds exactly what I'm looking for.
>
> What is <noscript>?
>
> Also, isn't there a "robots.txt" file I can use that tells bots what to
follow?
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| DaveBlues 2004-08-26, 12:18 pm |
| Thanks, again.
GREAT LINK, NADIA!
I'm going to get a lot of use from this.
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