6 replies to this topic

[TcM]

Can crawlers like Google bot crawl the links generated by the buttons? SO let's say that clicking a button will take you to the page 'buttonpressed.html', will the bot 'click' the button and will crawl 'buttonpressed.html'?

[v0id]

A crawler never sees the actually webpage. What I mean by that is the visual look of the page, generated by the browser. The crawler will only go trough the sourcecode for every page.
So yes, I'll find the link from the button, because the address the button links to is freely available in the sourcecode.

[Chan]

Yup, it sure will. You should add a link for good measure though.

[kisna]

Yes it does.
It crawls all the links inside the webpage.
It looks at the sourcecode so all buttons will be crawled because they uses html.

[pipeten]

Some engines follow forms, other don't. I wouldn't suggest using such things in navigation for example without having appropriate text links also.

[pipeten]

Some engines do, some don't (in terms of forms). Obviously the link is king where ever possible.

[DevilsCharm]

Crawlers can find links no matter what form they are in, but only in text form do they help with SEO.