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[trynet]

Sorry if this one's been asked before. Looked around and couldn't find anything.

What, if any, negative impact is there on the ability for spiders (primarily googlebot) to successfully crawl a site when the navigation system is largely comprised of an include that refers to a .cgi Perl script?

The script itself contains normal link markup (proper use of Anchor element) and the use of Unordered List for the links structure. In fact, here is a chunk of the code that I am talking about:

#Contact
if ($ENV{DOCUMENT_NAME} eq 'contact.html') {print "<li class=\"nolink\">Contact</li>\n"; }
else {print "<li><a href=\"contact.html\">Contact</a></li>\n"; }

(The landing pages are all fixed URLs such as this one, contact.html).

My assumption is that what I am doing will have no negative impact and that the site will be able to be freely crawled after launch. But since I am in development let me get it right before I launch.

Thanks much for your time.

Bud

[Jill]

Welcome Bud!

When you view the source code from your browser do you see all the links fine? If so, it shouldn't be a problem. All SSI that I've seen works that way.

Jill

[trynet]

Links are definitely visible via browser. Thought my method would be ok.

Thanks Jill. Your Forum is extra-ordinary!!

Bud

[Jill]

Links are visible as <a href> links when you view the source code through your browser? (Not just viewing the page.)

[trynet]

Absolutely yes.

The source code comes out like this in the downloaded page:

<li><a href="contact.html">Contact</a></li>

Wouldn't be good any other way. Thanks for checking Jill!!

Bud

[BrianR]

Welcome to the forum, Bud - hope you enjoy being with us.

BrianR

[trynet]

Thanks Brian.

From what I can tell I asked a reasonably good question. It wasn't just me doing all of the clicking!!

This is a great service to humanity and I will use it often.

Bud

[Scottie]

Welcome Bud!

Glad the forum is of use to you!