Hello all, hope you are well and keeping fit (new years resolutions and all). I have recently purchased the perfect push-up and it is great.
My drop down uses an <optgroup label> facility (6 optgroup categories, many values per category).
<optgroup label="1">
<option value="this"><option value="that">
</optgroup>
<optgroup label="2">
<option value="this2"><option value="that2">
</optgroup>
e.t.c.
This works fine (when the user chooses a category from the first drop down, a second drop down menu refreshes with the values for that category).
HOWEVER, the above system requires me to have every VALUE in plain text on every page. This is no good. It is affecting how the search engines view my page (the text cache version).
I want to store these values in a separate file so the search engines do not cache all the values as content on every page.
Does that make sense?
You could store the values in an object (JSON) and pull the information from there. Alternatively you could use Ajax, but that has the disadvantage of making the user wait for the next set of options to be downloaded, unless you design it in such a way that it’s not necessary (e.g. make the request when the dropdown is clicked rather than when it a selection is made).
The obvious disadvantage of all of this is that your SELECT element will not work if JavaScript is disabled.
What you say about search engines seems a bit odd - I’ve never seen a search engine show me the contents of SELECT elements. If you could provide an sample of what they show, that might help.
of course. here is a text only version of my homepage (as viewed by a search bot).
the actual website is http://www.londonheathrowcars.com/
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for example, the search ‘Heathrow to Reading’ in google, my homepage is indexed rather than my actual ‘Heathrow to Reading’ quote page (for that search).
seen here:
http://www.londonheathrowcars.com/eg.jpg
I think this is an SEO question. I suggest you ask over at the Search Engine Optimisation forum. If they tell you you need to put all this in a javascript file, then I can help you with that, but that is not really an ideal solution.
Perhaps converting it all to HTML entities would help, but I don’t know if search engine robots convert those to text automatically. Again, something to ask the SEO experts.