cfinclude nav menus

[brettcristofer]

The drop-down menus in my site are contained in a cfinclude file so I only have
to edit one file to make site wide menu changes. Can search engines still
spider and follow those links so my site gets indexed properly? I viewed the
page source on a live page and my links are rendered within the source.

[travmak]

Cold fusion wont be your problem here. It's just tossing the HTML into your
parrent document. Spiders browse the end HTML just like a page reader. what
may cause problems is how the menus drop down. some spiders don't like JS or
CSS "Drop down" menus.

[brettcristofer]

so should I embed my page links as a comment on my homepage like is recommended with frames?

[Mike Greider]

Remember, ColdFusion is creating those pages serverside. To clients, including
web spiders, the pages look exactly the same if you would have cut-and-pasted
the code in the same file. If you are curious, look at the page source in your
browser. You'll see exactly what a web spider would see.