Click to See Complete Forum and Search --> : Do search engines "click"


nap0leon
04-09-2008, 07:42 PM
Do search engines click links or merely navigate to what they find in the href?

e.g.,

<a href="SomePage.asp" onclick="javascript:ApplyCode(this,'10');">Clean href, uses onclick to append the icode</a>
<script type="text/javascript">
function ApplyCode(link,code){
link.href = link.href + '?code=' + code;
}
</script>


If a user clicks on the link, they are taken to "SomePage.asp?code=10".
Would search engines see "SomePage.asp" or would they see "SomePage.asp?code=10"

scragar
04-09-2008, 07:54 PM
since the manage to search all the posts on forums(public posts)I'm going to assume that they use the full link.

yamaharuss
04-10-2008, 05:24 AM
Most search engines do not read Javascript. In your example, "SomePage.asp" would be the link indexed from that page.