Beautiful Website, Invisible on Search Engines — Why? (Web Marketing Today)
Search Engine Optimization and Marketing
[...] As I began to study the website, I could see why. It is built on a sophisticated content management system provided at a reasonable price by a company that specializes in producing beautiful, template-driven websites for churches. The problem is that the navigation system is very unfriendly to search engine spiders — in multiple ways. (Article dated: January 4, 2006)
September 7th, 2006 at 7:56 pm
The navigation system on the splash page is an image map. Period. It contains no text links on the homepage, but since search engines can’t read image maps, the search engine is stopped in its tracks.