Can Crawlers "See" Nav Component Links?

J

Jon Edwards

Do Search Engine Crawlers "understand" how to follow the
FrontPage's Navigation Component's links -- or will using
it make the rest of my site become "invisible" to them?

Same question for the Table of Contents Component.

If so, what is the best way to get around the problem?

Thx - Jon

BTW: Thanks to Thomas & Mark for the answer to my last
question. -- J.
 
J

Jim Buyens

-----Original Message-----
Do Search Engine Crawlers "understand" how to follow the
FrontPage's Navigation Component's links -- or will
using it make the rest of my site become "invisible" to
them?

Same question for the Table of Contents Component.
Click to expand...

Each crawler is different, so no answer can be 100%
definitive. However, the Navigation Bar and Table Of
Contents components create perfectly ordinary hyperlink
HTML, and I'd be surprised if any search engines bypass
them.

Jim Buyens
Microsoft FrontPage MVP
http://www.interlacken.com
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T

Thomas A. Rowe

Search engines will not have any problems reading or following links within
you pages that are included in your page via Shared Borders or Include pages
since they are design-time components and are merge into your page when you
save the pages.

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