Links from php generated dropdown box

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Links from php generated dropdown box

Will they be followed/crawled/indexed

henry0

5:57 pm on Sep 28, 2010 (gmt 0)

I never really thought about it until having a need to make a specific section SEO friendly.

if I have a DD box offering a bunch of links, all well formed and 100% friendly, PHP and MySQL generated;
leading to "templated" dynamic pages with a "real meaningful name" such as (for example) red_widget.php,
will they be crawled and indexed?

The system I built is semi-"templated"
A template is copied and written to a dir, both the dir and the new page then exist physically.
each new page gets its content dynamically.

your thoughts?

phranque

11:55 am on Oct 22, 2010 (gmt 0)

if they look like a url, for example if they are fully qualified (http://example.com/widget-type/red-widget.php) they will be discovered and they might be crawled after which they might be indexed.

however, selecting a url in a form element and submitting that parameter value in a HTTP POST or using a javascript event to redirect or refresh to the selected url is not the same as an anchor link and won't be "followed" in the typical sense nor will there be any associated anchor text.

henry0

1:12 pm on Oct 22, 2010 (gmt 0)

Good, as url are fully qualified
thanks