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[deborah2002]

This is really not my area here. Jill said on another thread that a "noindex" tag is needed for spiderability for mouseovers in javascript.

Now I have to be able to explain this to the webmaster so we can do this. Can anyone s-l-o-w-l-y explain how to do this? I'd appreciate any help y'all could give, as again, this isn't really my area.

thanks!

deb

[air-dog]

Hi Deb,

By asking about "NOINDEX" and "Javascript Mouseover" I'm presuming that you dont want thae search engines to follow the links on the page, Would this be correct?

[Jill]

This is really not my area here. Jill said on another thread that a "noindex" tag is needed for spiderability for mouseovers in javascript.

I sure hope I didn't say that! Because it would be completely silly!

I probably said the noscript tag. If I said noindex, please point me to it so I can fix it.

And yes, if you use javascript menus, it's a good idea to also put your links into a noscript tag.

Jill

[deborah2002]

Hmmmm...........maybe I read it wrong or I asked it wrong. I need the spiders to read EVERYTHING. I did one of those spider simulators for a test page we are working on and the Java stuff doesnt get read.

Then, when I saw the post by Jill, I thought I hit the jackpot. Can anyone clarify? Man, I really thought I had it, too.

deb

[deborah2002]

Oh Shoot! My apologies, Jill! You are right--it was noSCRIPT tags.

sorry for the misquote!
deb

[air-dog]

Hi Deb,

Its a bit techy this but here goes. Some where on the page there should be some JavaScript tags;

<script ....... </SCRIPT>

underneath these tags you could put the following

<NOSCRIPT>
some normal html code like <A HREF="thepage.html">the page</A>
</NOSCRIPT>

I know you asked for it to be explained s-l-o-w-l-y but was'nt sure if you still wanted this info anymore, after all said above.

Hope this helps.

[deborah2002]

Thanks, Air Dog!

Yeah, I still needed it explained. That was MY boo-boo, not Jill's.

So all I do is insert ,<noscript> and its all good? Geez, sometimes these things seem sooo much more difficult than they really are, huh?

Thanks again....I may be back w/some more questions.


deb

[Jill]

Deb, take a look at the source code on my home page and you'll see the noscript tag in action.

Jill

[qwerty]

You can also just put plain old text links at the bottom of the page to the same pages the mouseover links point to. That's a pretty standard practice, and very easy to implement. You can just create a footer as a separate page that you bring in as a server-side include.

[deborah2002]

Thanks to one and all! Time to implement!


deb

[deborah2002]

Well, true to my word--I'm back. After implementation, the entire page disappeared with the exception of the java stuff! How or why, I have no idea. Anybody got any ideas as to what the h*ll I did wrong?


deb

[qwerty]

Did you close the noscript?
<noscript>content, links, whathaveyou....</noscript>

[deborah2002]

My web guy said he did--then he said that all the text turned red, indicating a problem, then disappeared.

deb

[air-dog]

Also did you close the <script> some script </script> tags?
can you post the URL?

[deborah2002]

I'd rather PM it, air-dog....give me a sec....

deb