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Thread: Google can now crawl form based links, submit forms, etc

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    Google can now crawl form based links, submit forms, etc

    http://googlewebmastercentral.blogsp...tml-forms.html

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

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    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."
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    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 ;-)
    Last edited by xmlsitemaps; 04-17-2008 at 05:57 AM.

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