search engines and drop down menu bars

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JacquieCC

I have read that search engine spiders cannt read drop down menus and you
should have your menu written somewhere else on teh page so that they can go
through that - is this true? My website www.mountain-toursltd.com doesn't
come anywhere near the top of rankins when you type in the one town it deals
with - Livigno - should I do something to the menu page apart from putting in
meta tags?
thanks in advance for any suggestions,
JacquieCC
 
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Rob Giordano \(Crash\)

its #1 if you search; mountain tours livigno
its #3 if you search; livigno tours
its #1 if you search; livigno mountain

that's how i would search anyway...and the results are pretty good for you,
me thinks.



|I have read that search engine spiders cannt read drop down menus and you
| should have your menu written somewhere else on teh page so that they can
go
| through that - is this true? My website www.mountain-toursltd.com doesn't
| come anywhere near the top of rankins when you type in the one town it
deals
| with - Livigno - should I do something to the menu page apart from putting
in
| meta tags?
| thanks in advance for any suggestions,
| JacquieCC
 
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JacquieCC

Thanks for all your replies - Crash - was that Google you were searching on?
I do know that most people just put in Livigno and hope they come up with
something decent and on Yahoo especially I am on page - god knows where as I
just kept going forward and never found myself. However if people put in
those words that is great - will have to try google with just Livigno again.
Thanks Ronx for letting me know that the menu bar is fully spider friendly '
-psnet ages doing it and agonising over it so it is good that I don't have to
change it.
Also thanks Corey - will certainly be looking at those websites they look
really interesting!

YOu guys are just brilliant when I have a problem - am quite embaressed by
some of my earlier questions - hope they will soon be deleted!

regards,
JacquieCC
 
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Rob Giordano \(Crash\)

yep it was google.

searching on just Livigno would be like searching just on Rome...it's too
broad a search...most people (one would hope) know how to qualify searches
by now :)

btw...i don't think anything ever gets deleted off the internet...it just
floats off into the ether


| Thanks for all your replies - Crash - was that Google you were searching
on?
| I do know that most people just put in Livigno and hope they come up with
| something decent and on Yahoo especially I am on page - god knows where as
I
| just kept going forward and never found myself. However if people put in
| those words that is great - will have to try google with just Livigno
again.
| Thanks Ronx for letting me know that the menu bar is fully spider friendly
'
| -psnet ages doing it and agonising over it so it is good that I don't have
to
| change it.
| Also thanks Corey - will certainly be looking at those websites they look
| really interesting!
|
| YOu guys are just brilliant when I have a problem - am quite embaressed by
| some of my earlier questions - hope they will soon be deleted!
|
| regards,
| JacquieCC
|
|
|
| "Corey Bryant" wrote:
|
| > While most search engines might not have a problem spidering your
website,
| > consider taking a look at http://www.alistapart.com/articles/dropdowns/
or
| > http://www.udm4.com/ for some other examples of menus.
| >
| > Also, consider creating a sitemap using http://gsitecrawler.com/ as
well.
| > Check out http://www.loudsitemaps.com/ as well on how to implement this
| > sitemap to help Google, Yahoo, MSN, and Ask.com
| >
| > --
| > Corey R. Bryant
| > http://www.coreybryant.org | http://www.loudcommerce.com
| >
| >
| > "JacquieCC" wrote:
| >
| > > I have read that search engine spiders cannt read drop down menus and
you
| > > should have your menu written somewhere else on teh page so that they
can go
| > > through that - is this true? My website www.mountain-toursltd.com
doesn't
| > > come anywhere near the top of rankins when you type in the one town it
deals
| > > with - Livigno - should I do something to the menu page apart from
putting in
| > > meta tags?
| > > thanks in advance for any suggestions,
| > > JacquieCC
 

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