Can a search engine follow

Question

I am considering replacing links with such as:

<input type="button" onclick ="window.location.href('http://foo.com')" value="Click me!" />

There was a suggestion that search engines could not follow this kind of link. Does anyone have any knowledge to confirm this.

thanks,

As far as I know search engines don't follow buttons. For example, what would they do when crawling an loginform or contactform? They only follow hyperlinks. Judging by your provided example, why not create an hyperlink. Point that to foo.com and style it like an button with css? — Rob, May 24 '11 at 08:15

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered May 24 '11 at 08:16

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I would say that would be horrible for SEO purposes...

answered May 24 '11 at 08:16

alex

In general you're of course right. However: * Whether buttons are used for links is a question of website design, and the ` – s.d May 24 '11 at 08:53

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered May 24 '11 at 08:16

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<button>Some text here</button> – some text goes here will be indexed by search engines.

answered May 24 '11 at 08:16

s.d

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