Lots of people forget that large sites are often designed by design agencies/teams and then implemented by developers from a separate or partner company.
Design agencies are often interested in getting the client to buy their design based on how wonderful it looks rather than how feasible it will be to make it work. For a case in point go here: http://www.vu.nl Try automagically making that one Search Engine friendly. Even for sites that are designed and built by competent developers, I'd wager that it's pretty rare that you'll not have any pages that use a bit of Javascript to redirect to another page. Whether or not that should be indexed by a spider is a bit hard to say, but I certainly wouldn't assume that it isn't necessary. Personally, I'd rather go through every href in the site and make the whole lot Search Engine friendly than try to convert only half of it. Almost certainly, the half you don't convert will cause you no end of little requests for another code change just so it works for search engines. Spike Stephen Milligan Team Macromedia - ColdFusion Co-author 'Reality Macromedia ColdFusion MX: Intranets and Content Management' http://spikefu.blogspot.com > -----Original Message----- > From: Taz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: 07 January 2003 16:16 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [ cf-dev ] SES URL > > > > > Not forgetting to do the same thing for all Javascript > generated hrefs > > (Good luck with that one), and forms with a get operation where > > relevant. > > > > Also, you might need to do it for some <link>, <base>, <object>, > > <applet> and some other tags that take a href attribute. > > Not strictly true though... > > Assuming that you're trying to create SEF URLs specifically > for search engines, you only really need to alter the URLs > that you want a spider to follow. If you're using javascript > to generate links and popups, its likely that the content > that they link to is not important to your search engine indexing. > > Lots of people forget that they need only create SEF URLs for > the parts of the site that need to be indexed, which is > mainly text content. When you look at the whole app, you > might find that only half of it needs to be SEF. > > It can still be a bloody big faff though. > > Taz > > > -- > ** Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/dev%40lists.cfdeveloper.co.uk/ > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] For human help, e-mail: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- ** Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/dev%40lists.cfdeveloper.co.uk/ To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For human help, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
