SEO: option links not spidered?

  • Jack

    (@moxie)


    18 years, 2 months ago

    I was testing my site with a couple of spider test programs. I don’t know how reliable this is compared to the actual search engine like google, but the spider test showed all the links on my homepage, except for the links within the pulldown menu: <select><option> etc. These are the links with my monthly archives and they seem to be ignored.

    Anyone know how this works? Is it better to have the monthly archives listed as normal links, within
    <ul>
    <li>?</li>
    </ul>

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  • Kafkaesqui

    (@kafkaesqui)

    18 years, 2 months ago

    Yes, some (though not all) search spiders can tend to fail following your select content, since they are not normally seen as links. An option (other than swapping out the dropdown list) is to insert the archive links in the <head> of your templates using this:

    <?php wp_get_archives('format=link'); ?>

    This displays each monthly (unless you change the ‘type’ parameter) archive in a link tag, like so:

    <link rel=’archives’ title=’February 2006′ href=’http://my.site/blog/2006/02&#8242; />

    More info on wp_get_archives():

    http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/wp_get_archives

    Thread Starter Jack

    (@moxie)

    18 years, 2 months ago

    <?php wp_get_archives('format=link'); ?>

    I already have that, but those were not followed by those spiders. Only the category links 🙁

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