JavaScript Navigation

The Why

JavaScript can do many cool things for your website. The functionality gained by using JavaScript is obvious but issues brought with it should concern you. If you are using JavaScript as a navigational system for your site then you've got problems ahead. Search engine crawlers may have serious problems crawling your website or at least following the JavaScript links within your navigation.

Links that you have set up within your JavaScript navigation will more than likely be ignored by the search engines. In addition, usability gurus will tell you not to use JavaScript navigation but a hypertext linking structure instead.

The Fix

If you must use JavaScript navigation for your sites pages all is not lost. A simple workaround would be to use an alternate hypertext linking navigation. You will notice on most professional websites the text links at the bottom of the sites pages or off to the right of the page. This is a great example of ensuring the spiders have a way to crawl your site.

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