Do Search Bots Index Pull-downs?

[ocellnuri]

I just added the following code to my Blogger page to make a pull-down menu of my recent posts:

 

><select name="previousmenu" onchange="document.location.href=this.options[this.selectedIndex].value;" style="width:70px">
              <option selected>- Previous Posts -</option>

              <BloggerPreviousItems>
              <option value="<$BlogItemPermalinkURL$>"><$BlogPreviousItemTitle$></option>
              </BloggerPreviousItems> 

         </select>

 

My question is... will bots from search engines such as Google dig into these pull-down links? I don't want to kill a spider's ability to index my site by not using standard links.

 

I was also thinking if this is the case, I could put the links in my page and hide them with CSS. Would an search bot index hidden links as well?

 

 

Thanks in advance for any assistance.

[Guest Serpentine]

OK,

 

Take this with a grain of salt. Spiders work like text browsers in most cases and I do not think that will work for indexing purposes. They are rapidly changing what they can read so I may be wrong. As for hiding them, I dont recommend hiding anything in your page to make it search engine friendly.

[Deverill]

Serpentine is right - never hide stuff on your site for better search engine results... it's risky and may get you banned. Besides, the benefit is tiny.

 

A good way to see what the search engines see is to go to your site in a browser and view the page source. Engines generally read only what you will see there as text.

[ocellnuri]

Thanks guys!