Re: search engine page rank

Ben Noblet wrote:
> (I know this site is not optimised for spidering in any other way,
> especially in it's use of dynamic menus.  I'm just trying to illustrate the
> URL issue :) )

Those dynamic menus also aren't cross-browser compatible.  But anyway, 
on the subject dynamic menus, a way to handle this issue is to use 
Javascript that reads the page and transforms it.  So you might have 
something like:

<ul id="nav_menu">
<li> <a href="/about.html">About us</a>
<li> <a href="/whatever.html">Whatever and Ever</a>
<li> blah blah
</ul>

And then you have some Javascript that looks for the element with the ID 
"nav_menu", and uses that for the data to create the menu.  It works 
okay if Javascript is turned disabled, but more apropos to this 
discussion, the links are navigable by a search engine.

I know there's more polished examples of this out there, but this is one 
implementation of this idea:

   http://www.kryogenix.org/code/browser/aqlists/

   Ian