Does the selection list use for navigation?

Question

I really dislike using select / option elements for links:

But they found their way into the portfolio of designers as an option and tried, as I could dissuade them from using them, I know that I will lose the battle without the power of Google and "this is bad for SEO."

I searched all over the network and did not find anything specific to support or debunk my thoughts.

In the selection list that I write, you will get full accessibility with the end of the script to follow the link, but does anyone know for sure whether the search engines will follow or ignore the URLs?

<form action="/redirect-script" method="post"> <label for="url-selection">Redirect to: </label> <select id="url-selection" name="url_redirect"> <option value="http://example.com/" >Example.COM</option> <option value="http://example.net/" >Example.NET</option> <option value="http://example.org/" >Example.ORG</option> </select> <input type="submit" value="Go to URL" /> </form> 

Answer 1

Most likely not SEO Friendly

If this is a list of sponsored links:

Since these are not actual links, but the redirection is processed either using scripts on the server side or on the client side, then Google will not pay tribute to the site you are redirecting to.

Can I point out this: why is there a drop down list of links? Of course, this can save some space, but for this you need to double-click twice to select, and then click the "Go to link" link again. It seems to me that in terms of usability, you can consider a simple set of <a> tags.

Answer 2

Well, super-search engines like Google, Yahoo, Bing, etc., may eventually figure this out. But...

Search engines do not like to follow POST requests, as they often do very special things, such as redirects, handle authentication (which search engines cannot do), etc. Therefore, either they completely ignore them, or, perhaps, while they grab a pair (remember that you would also need to try every combination of all the possible fields in the FORM itself.

Most likely, anchor tags are the way to go. Also for your designers who need to worry about user friendliness. The ELECTIONS are terrible, because the user cannot see all the places that he can place on your site, which means that they will miss several, possibly important links to your site. In addition, users are looking for a well-known, well-known blue underline text when they want to move somewhere. Using selections makes the user look at other, unknown things.

Answer 3

The select element is part of the form, and therefore the search engine will not look at it (because it considers it to be a form and has no reason). You send it to a script redirect, so it has absolutely no way to tell that the URL is directly from your page.

Answer 4

Answering my question (not a question, but what I consider the answer).

Designers need a select dropdown element, but semantically this is a list of links, so I used JavaScript to make a list of links that behave the same as the scary select element does with onClick.

  $('#block-menu-menu-sites ul').append('<li id="other-sites"><span>select a site</span></li>'); $('#other-sites span').click(function() { $(this).parent().parent().toggleClass('open'); }); 

Then, with a little css, it all looks nice like select. The only problem is that the select class will not look like the default browser.