Why are links in my Javascript menus being skipped?
Links in Javascript menus or DHTML are not followed. Javascipt is executed on the client side by the browser. Using Javascript it is to possible to create new links as the Javascript code executes. Some examples are, • A link might be generated only after the user moves the mouse over a particular area of the screen or enters some data. • The Javascipt code might create the URL for the link using an algorithm that takes into account other factors such as the date and time, the size of the browser window, security settings in the browser or hundreds of other factors. • A link gets generated by the Javascript code only 10 seconds after the page is downloaded using a timer. Zoom does not execute JavaScript. Even if it did execute JavaScript it would fail on the above examples. It is not possible to predict or simulate the user behaviour with the mouse or data entry. So using only JavaScript to generate links will result in those links being invisible to search engines. Note that this is a
