What Search Engine Robots Can See and Can See?
You’d think with all the fuss about indexing web pages to add to search engine databases, that robots would be great and powerful beings. Not true. Search engine robots have only basic functionality like that of early browsers in terms of what they can understand in a web page. Like early browsers, robots just can’t do certain things. Robots don’t understand frames, Flash movies, images or JavaScript. They can’t enter password protected areas and they can’t click all those buttons you have on your website. They can be stopped cold while indexing a dynamically generated URL and slowed to a stop with JavaScript navigation. Size of HTML Coding and Page It seems the current trend for most web page designers is the use of Flash, Java Script, or in some cases – dynamic page generation tools like ASP, PHP, of Cold fusios CFM. While these tools make database integration and visual appearance both simplified and amazing, it can also hinder the optimization value of a page – and do so in the eye