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Chris
04-13-2008, 09:40 AM
http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2008/04/crawling-through-html-forms.html

Big news for SEO. This is probably the biggest technical SEO news in years.

chromate
04-13-2008, 09:57 AM
That is indeed huge news!

I had a client a few days back point out that one of his competitors had pages appearing in the index as a result of a select box. I basically discarded it saying, "Nah, Google don't crawl forms like that, so there must be some other link to the pages."

... Time to go eat my hat! ;)

Cutter
04-13-2008, 03:36 PM
I've got a better headline, "Google spams bogus information in web forms."

If its a search form, thats one thing, but user information & surveys, Google should stay away.


...

ok, nevermind :) "Similarly, we only retrieve GET forms and avoid forms that require any kind of user information."

xmlsitemaps
04-17-2008, 05:52 AM
Kinda annoying... Since it was one of the unique features that set A1 Sitemap Generator apart from even Google :-) Anyways, I can tell you, if you have a form with many option/select... And you have to test all combinations... I understand why Google won't do it all websites ;-)