Drop down lists
 

This is my first post here. Looks like a good board.

I have a question.

I have spent the last couple of weeks going through my programming books and have tried dozens of experiments and permutations.

Has anyone found a way to create a drop down box with links that SEs can follow?

Frustrated,

scottb |waves|

Hi scottb, welcome to the board. :)

In answer to your question no I haven't.

Welcome to GreenguyandJim, scottb
|waves|

Thanks Jim and Cleo,

It is nice to feel welcome.

But I am still frustrated with my question on drop down lists.

I can not figure how to get an "href" associated with the JavaScript involved with a drop down list.

I thought I had it worked out in VBS but that is pretty web worthless.

scottb |spaceship

Hi scottb |waves| welcome to the board :)

I haven't found a searchable one yet.

Our Newsletter Archice is a drop down list & the links have been picked up in Google.

Greenguy,

My JavaScript code for the drop down box is similar to yours. The differences are minor.

When I run my code through a search engine analyzer such as Sticky Sauce, the links do not appear.

I am trying to develop an href link that will respond to the JavaScript.

I think your links are being found somewhere else and not at the drop down box.

scottb |spaceship

Actually, I don't think the newsletters are linked up any place other than the archive page (which has the drop down menu)

Each time a newsletter is sent out, the old one is saved as "newsletter/newsletterXXX.html" & the new one is uploaded to newsletter.html - so the links to the html pages are not link to from any place else on the site.

Doing a search in google on greenguysboard.com for "templates" brings up 5 pages of results - on the 3rd page:
http://www.google.com/search?q=site:...&start=20&sa=N
is a newsletter about the proper use of templates - so it does work :)

Greenguy,

If you don't mind I will copy your code and change the domain referrals.

The minor nuance differences may be the solution.

I had to make an ugly page at http://jizz-masters.com because the SEs would not see the links. I would rather have a drop down box.

scottb |spaceship

Umm no they havent... |whisper|

http://www.google.com/search?num=50&...ewsletter.html

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&i...com+newsletter

and those that are are hard linked from elsewhere...
http://www.greenguysboard.com/board/...tes+newsletter

At this point Google does not index links in javascript dropdown menus.. I believe this is possibly going to change.


DD