Javascript links and <noscript> [Archive] - SEO Best Practices Search Engine Forums

behnkem

06-06-2003, 22:36/10:36PM

2 questions:

First, I am in the process of changing the majority of my links to javascript on one of my websites so that I can pass an affiliate ID in the URL and use it in the page. I am wondering if this will hurt my search engine placements or not. I am not concerned about PR or such, just wanting a little reassurance that it shouldn't hurt anything (I know there's no guarantees anytime you change something)

Second, can a page contain more than one set of <noscript> tags? The reason is that I would like to put them in where the links are so that people browsing with JS off will still be able to take advantage of the links in the site.

Thanks!

The URL is www.moneyfromyourcomputer.com/index-new3.htm (http://www,moneyfromyourcomputer.com/index-new3.htm)

Any insights, comments, etc, that anyone has on the site are appreciated - it is not "live" yet as the index page. (Once I have the rest of the site done I will put it in the site review forum)

Thanks!
Mike Behnke

g1smd

07-06-2003, 17:21/05:21PM

By definition every pair of <script> ... </script> tags inside the <body> should be accompanied by a matching <noscript> ... </noscript> pair.

Search engines cannot follow javascript links, so it will probably affect you in some way, unless you make a sitemap page using normal HTML links, and you link all pages to it, and it lists most of your major content.

The biggest problem you will have is that visitors without javascript may have a poor experience on your site, reduced functionality, and may therefore go elsewhere instead.

Run all the code through http://validator.w3.org/detailed.html as the last job you do before declaring the site "live".