Tee, Thank you.
Your evaluation advice has been filed for future use. In this particular case the "certain types of information" do not belong to any of their "host" pages, but I do see the value of your advice if I ever have a case where they do. Best, Bob > A simple "back" link should work, if the popup can be accessed in every page, > maybe you need to link to "home", if not, link to the page where the popup > link shows. > > IMHO, you may want to re-evaluate the technicality of the popup. If the > "certain types of information" belong to a section of a page, you can still > use popup, but make sure that when JS turns off, the "certain types of > information" is treated as part of the page, not a link that pulls a page of > content via Ajax fetch (and I assume that is what you used); you can achieve > this by using combination of simple show/hide and absolute positioning for > the popup div, this way, there will be no issue with google search result. > > tee > > On May 12, 2011, at 2:14 AM, Bob Schwartz wrote: > >> I have several sites where i use pop-up windows to present certain types of >> information. >> >> When someone does a Google search sometimes Google lists results from these >> pop-up pages. >> >> When the searcher clicks on the Google result he gets the pop-up window as a >> stand-alone page in his browser with no links to anywhere on the actual site. >> >> Savvy people would just delete the part after the domain in the url bar, hit >> enter and be at the site, but I'm discovering not all are savvy. >> >> So, is anyone aware of any clever javascript that would detect if the page >> had not been opened as a pop-up and write a link to the actual site (and not >> write the link if opened as a pop-up)? >> Or, any other suggestion (besides "don't use pop-ups")? >> >> Thank you, >> >> Bob Schwartz >> > > > > ******************************************************************* > List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm > Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm > Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org > ******************************************************************* > > ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org *******************************************************************
