Posted by John Bokma on 08/29/05 23:36

Fugetaboutit <yer.m@ma> wrote:

> A friend's web site has only one menu on each page, which is
> completely hidden with Javascript disabled. His Home Page Google
> PageRank is 3 and the other pages are either 2, 1, or 0. What I'm
> trying to grasp is how these other pages get any ranking at all.

Depends on how well the other pages are hidden. A search engine might be
able to extract an URL from:

<a href="javascript: ......... http://..... ...">

It's just some extra parsing. Of course, by moving the javascript into
OnClick, and using a normal href, you make more people (and probably SE
bots) happy.

Other options:

- visited the pages with Google toolbar on (IIRC this works)
- other people have linked to the page(s)

> According to Google, there are no backlinks to his site.

Possible, Google doesn't list them all. Try yahoo (and even then).

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