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4fingers · 08-05-2005, 02:30 PM

Like I said before this was one of the small problems faced.
This is from Googles website
http://www.google.com/webmasters/guidelines.html
"Use a text browser such as Lynx to examine your site, because most search engine spiders see your site much as Lynx would. If fancy features such as JavaScript, cookies, session IDs, frames, DHTML, or Flash keep you from seeing all of your site in a text browser, then search engine spiders may have trouble crawling your site."

So google might find it hard to crawl the site and depending on how much info it cant access then it might drop your ranking as maybe it cant see the links that you might have put there.

Also as you say the pages are refreshed with javascript which means when the user wants to go back a step he/she might automatically press the back button on their browser but that will back them into the last page that was loaded which may even cause them to exit the site completely. So unless you have a good navagation system enableing the user to go back without using the back buttons then that may be no worry.

And the chances of someone haveing javascript disabled/not installed are really small so I wouldnt worry about that.

08-05-2005, 02:30 PM	#6 (permalink)
4fingers The Wanderer Join Date: Jul 2005 Posts: 17 Thanks: 0	Like I said before this was one of the small problems faced. This is from Googles website http://www.google.com/webmasters/guidelines.html "Use a text browser such as Lynx to examine your site, because most search engine spiders see your site much as Lynx would. If fancy features such as JavaScript, cookies, session IDs, frames, DHTML, or Flash keep you from seeing all of your site in a text browser, then search engine spiders may have trouble crawling your site." So google might find it hard to crawl the site and depending on how much info it cant access then it might drop your ranking as maybe it cant see the links that you might have put there. Also as you say the pages are refreshed with javascript which means when the user wants to go back a step he/she might automatically press the back button on their browser but that will back them into the last page that was loaded which may even cause them to exit the site completely. So unless you have a good navagation system enableing the user to go back without using the back buttons then that may be no worry. And the chances of someone haveing javascript disabled/not installed are really small so I wouldnt worry about that. Last edited by 4fingers : 08-05-2005 at 02:54 PM.