Why is the crawler following form action links?
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I have an issue with one of my sites where the SEOMoz crawler is following some form action links. It is my understanding that the crawler will ignore these links. Why would it not be ignoring them in certain cases. If you need more detail, please ask. Thanks.
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The crawler is designed to emulate the Google crawler's behavior. It isn't perfect, but crawlers will follow all the links they can.
If you require more details, an example URL with the specific links you are inquiring about would be helpful.
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