Can Googlebot Follow Links in Flash or JavaScript?
While Googlebot can identify links in JavaScript, it cannot follow those links. Nor can it follow links in Flash. Therefore, I recommend having your links elsewhere on the page. It is OK to have links in flash or JavaScript, but you need to account for the crawlers not finding them. Therefore, the use of a sitemap can help get those links found and crawled. As alternatives, I know there are menus which use JavaScript and CSS to output a very similar looking navigation system to what you commonly see with JavaScript navigation yet use static hyperlinks which crawlers can follow. Therefore, do a little research and you should be able to find a spiderable alternative to whatever type of navigation your site currently has. Overall, while I didn’t learn anything earth shattering, it was good to get validation “from the horse’s mouth” so to speak. I guess it just goes to show that there is enough information out there on the forums and blogs. The problem is determining which information is v
