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[idrive]

I have a client site that has some relevant content that is contained within a form. The site in question is related to travel packages and this particular page is a theme page - ie in the "Happy Theme" there are 4 travel packages that can be clicked on for more information. On the left of every page including this page is a form that allows a user to perform a quick search and find a list of packages based on 1) season 2) Location 3) Theme.
Each of these three options are drop down menus and then one would click on a go button.
The locations are my best keyword phrases...but the SE cannot see them as they are contained within a form. Is there something that I can that sums up the locations that are contained within the form? The equivalent of <noscript> tags for browsers which cannot render scripts for example?
Thanks ;-)
BTW, the problem is that the individual packages are not being indexed even though I have increased the number of direct links to the packages within the website.

[robwatts]

If the packages can be reached via a form, then perhaps they can also be reached via links too.

Why not include links to the possible outcomes on a site map somewhere?

Im not aware of any <no form> tag I think that fundamentally its a design issue that you need to work around.

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BTW, the problem is that the individual packages are not being indexed even though I have increased the number of direct links to the packages within the website.

I didnt see this bit. If this is the case, then sooner or later the bots will find these links and index the content, unless of course, you've created links with multiple parameters in which case you might run in to some difficulties. </added>

Edited by robwatts, 14 November 2003 - 08:48 AM.

[Ron Carnell]

"Direct links to the packages" implies static pages. Is the script behind the form merely directing the visitor to the applicable page? Or is it creating a page dynamically?

If the former, then yes, links to those static pages will "eventually" be found and crawled. If your situation is the latter, the script being called should be modified to handle GET requests as well as POST requests, in which case you can again use links. Passing three parameters in the query string is probably pushing it a little, but only a little. Still, if it were me, I'd try to combine all the parameters into a single parameter, something that shouldn't be too difficult with only three to handle.

[idrive]

Perhaps it would make more sense to share an earlier post with you ;-) I first posted here:

http://www.highranki...h...ic=1820&hl=

If that doesn't work, the post was entitled "spider cannot crawl pages" or something like that ;-)

Since that post, we have implemented a sitemap, and that was indexed by google very quickly. The meat and potatoes of the site are the travel packages themselves...and they are about the only thing not indexed *grin* On another page we made links to packages by season, seeing that a search engine cannot modify a form to get this information ;-) There are links to the travel themes on the main navigation bar, therefore available from every page.

For the record, AllTheWeb has indexed the travel pages...

Thanks!