Internal Javascript Links
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Hi,
We have a client who has internal links pointing to some relatively new pages that we asked them to implement. The problem is that instead of using standard HTML links, their developers have used javascript - e.g. javascript:GoTo...
The new pages have links from the homepage (among others) and have been live for about 3-4 weeks now - yet are still to be indexed by Google, Bing & Yahoo. Is it possibe that Javascript links are making them difficult to be found?
Thanks in advance for any tips.
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Hi Irving - thanks for your thoughts.
No URL paths are used in the links, just page names.The aim is simply to get the new pages indexed, but this isn't happening with the current way that they are linked to and from what I've read I think it will be better to just ask their developers to change the links to standard HTML.
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It depends on how it was coded, are they valid relative paths? if they are actual url paths with the domain name stripped off Google can follow them.
What are you trying to do, keep Google from crawling these pages or page rank sculpting (keeping PR from passing to these pages)?
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Great - thanks,
I was looking for articles on the subject but didn't have much look finding difinative answers - so these are really helpful.
The site doesn't actually include URL's in the links, just page/category names, which I'm guessing the search engine can't follow?
Thanks again!
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