Click here to get back home

Can a search engine spider/robot/crawler "click" a button on a web page?

 Home | NewsGroups | Search
Login Password
Register Now! Lost Password?

alt.internet.search-engines - Discussions about Search Engines 
get this group's latest topics as an RSS feed add this group's latest topics to your My MSN content add this group's latest topics to your My Yahoo content
Subject Author Date
Can a search engine spider/robot/crawler "click" a button on a web page? tenxian 04-09-2008
Posted by tenxian on April 9, 2008, 8:47 pm
Please log in for more thread options
Can a search engine robot do that?

Posted by Nikita the Spider on April 10, 2008, 11:09 am
Please log in for more thread options
In article

show/hide quoted text

Yes. A spider can recognize a button and look at the action attribute of
the containing frame. But if the button is just wired to a JavaScript
onclick event, very few (if any) spiders will follow it.

--
Philip
http://NikitaTheSpider.com/
Whole-site HTML validation, link checking and more

Similar ThreadsPosted
Search engine advertising and click fraud June 1, 2006, 4:35 am
What is the index criteria when click on the INDEX link at the top of the Google search result page August 30, 2008, 1:57 am
how to get the page in cache of the search engine March 9, 2006, 12:01 pm
Google PageRank button December 30, 2007, 10:20 pm
Search engine page rank tool October 27, 2005, 11:06 pm
Search engine page rank tool October 27, 2005, 11:07 pm
Google Adwords Edit CPC/URL Button November 8, 2005, 10:17 pm
Frame page, Hide Content from Search Engine June 30, 2006, 6:12 pm
Multiple Radio Button Validation in Java Script August 30, 2005, 3:24 am
Search Engine Optimization - Low Cost Search Engine Marketing Service September 11, 2007, 12:29 am

Our other projects:

Art Dolls, Fairies and Mermaids - Sunnyfaces.net

Driving a better car - Fuelzilla.com

Cabling site for homeowners and pros alike - Cabling-Design.com

Friends:

Roy's Linux, Programming and Search Engines messages

1-Script XML SitemapXML Sitemap
Privacy Policy