tee wrote:
On Mar 7, 2008, at 12:36 AM, Stuart Foulstone wrote:
Hi,
Search robots are essentially blind users.
Anybody knows about this?
I think what Kevin meant is that the googlebot takes no notice of
graphical navigation or information, much as a blind user is unable to
see it. The googlebot is also unable to process javascript navigation
and links, so be sure to have alternate navigation. If you develop your
pages with blind users in mind, it will serendipitously help you with
the googlebot.
The robots text is good for search robots, but
I read from somewhere, that robots text no longer is needed when Google
Sitemap is implemented for the site. I didn't know robots text was
important for accessibility, however I learned from the accessites team
that it is.
As Lea said, someone is confused. No assistive technology that I know of
pays any attention to the robots.txt file, nor would they gain much
information from it if they did.
The main use of a robots.txt file is to tell unwelcome search bots to go
away.
cheers
mark
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