website crawler/indexing problem!?

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website crawler/indexing problem!?

So, i just found out that you should only use certain web fonts in iweb so crawlers or whatever can find your site pages, cuz if you don't iweb translates them, but into images, not text, so crawlers cant find them.

anyway i was wondering if i could just make my own navbar or site navigation/menu, which i have. But could i hide it behind like an image? so basically its there but visitors cant see it. will the crawler be able to still find it?

thanks!

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Posted on Dec 19, 2009 7:23 PM

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Answer 1

Roddy

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Dec 19, 2009 8:04 PM in response to JoeSweeney

What you really need to do is to upload a sitemap and tell the search engines about it.
Find out more about this and all the other things you need to do here.....

http://www.iwebformusicians.com/SearchEngines/SEO.html

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Dec 19, 2009 10:26 PM in response to JoeSweeney

You can find info of how to add a sitemap to your website by looking at the respected source. Take a look at the Google webmaster page and follow the links to find info of how to add a sitemap to your page. Creating links and then hiding them behind an image is considered a blackhat technique that may get your site blacklisted by Google and other search engines. It's not recommended that you use that method.

http://google.com/webmasters

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