The Trouble With Drop Down Boxes

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I’ve never claimed to be an SEO expert. But because I do so much work with websites in general, I am required to know some basics. Today I am reminded about something that is not such a good thing to have.

They are drop down boxes, or even radio buttons for navigation 

Simple reason – drop downs and radio buttons that automatically direct people to a page after they are selected require Javascript. And Javascript – as commonly known – is ignored by robots. So if you have important links to your content and are using this method of linking, they won’t be crawled.

So if you have a landing page (like a homepage) with drop down or radio buttons – even flash navigation, get rid of them. Or at the very least put regular links to those pages in your footer or somewhere.

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