We are not talking human accessibility here (as in 508). Accessibility is anything on the page that impedes a search egine spider’s abilty to crawl a page. There can be a number of culprits:
- Avoid Splash Pages: Flash and heavily graphic introductions prohibit engines from crawling your site.
- Avoid Frames: Never use pages with frames. Frames are too complex for the crawlers and too cumbersome to index.
- Avoid Cookies: Never require cookies for Web site access! Search engine crawlers are unable to enter any cookie-required materials.
- Avoid JavaScript when Possible: Though JavaScript menus are very popular, they disable crawlers from accessing those links. Most, well-indexed Web sites incorporate text-based links primarily because they are search engine friendly. If necessary, JavaScript should be referenced externally.
- Avoid Redirects: Search engines frown upon companies that use numerous Web sites to redirect to a single Web site.
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