Posted by Brian Cryer on 08/08/06 15:01

"Advo" <max_mischief@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:1155037883.168196.241960@m79g2000cwm.googlegroups.com...
> Actually now, ive got the other problem. I tried using JS, that worked
> fine to display the information, but when i view the source, all i see
> is the following;
>
> <script src="javascript/footer_test.js">
> </script>
>
> What im after is for the contents of footer_test.js which is basically
> html links, to also be shown on this main page of source if that makes
> sense.
>
> Any ideas

I thought in your original post you said that JavaScript was out?

If you use JavaScript then yes, if you view the source then you will see
what you are seeing. That's because "<scirpt ...>" is in your source. Its
only after the JavaScript has run in the browser that you see the links you
are after. Does it matter if someone does a show-source and sees that you
are using JavaScript?

Be aware that if you go the JavaScript route then it won't work for those
users who don't have JavaScript enabled. I know the standard response to
that statement is that the vast majority of users do have JavaScript enabled
(quite true), but most bots when they look at your site will ignore
JavaScript. This means that if one of your objectives in having a footer
with links is to ensure that every page has a link back to your homepage
(and thus boost the pagerank of your homepage) then it won't achieve this
goal because search engine bots won't see the link.
--
Brian Cryer
www.cryer.co.uk/brian

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