If a website Uses <select>to dropdown some choices, will Google see every option as Content Or Hyperlink?</select>
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If a website Uses <select> to dropdown some choices, will Google see every option as Content Or Hyperlink?</select>
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Hi Wesley
They won't see it as a normal link, but Google will try to probably crawl and process them, it just would take longer to do so. If you really want to prevent Google from crawling a link, use the rel=nofollow attribute like this on the link itself;
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Hi Dan,
Thanks voor your reply but in this case I don't want that the crawler sees the <select>dropdown as a numeration of links. Do you thing Google will see the drop down choices as hyperlinks? Cheers, Wesley</select>
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I would generally stick with <a>links if you want to ensure web crawlers can crawl the links. Its possible they may be able to process <select>and crawl through to those pages, but I'd suspect it may be slower and less reliable than a normal anchor link.</select></a>
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