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How to optimize drop down menus?

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esiow2013 last edited by

Thanks in advance!
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DeanAndrews last edited by

I agree with Federico, as long as it's readable to the search engine then you should not have an issue.

You could try seo-browser.com to see if the menu is visible to search engines.
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FedeEinhorn last edited by

What do you mean by "optimize drop down menus"?

I am guessing you are referring to "how to let search engines crawlers to recognize your menus"??. Well, there's really no need to do anything.

Drop down menus actually use CSS or Javascript (or a conjunction of both) to load. Search engine crawlers are already smart enough to recognize and run JS/css code, that means that there's no need for you to do anything (unless your menus are really messy and unusable to users..?

Hope that helps!
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