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Do search engines follow weblinks?

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    Willi Waizenegger Reply #1, 12 years, 10 months ago
    Do search engines follow weblinks? I have a page that has the 'Hide From Menus' checkbox checked and a weblink on the menu (Wayfinder) to get to the page. Can I assume that the page can still be navigated to by the search engines to the main page through the weblink? Yes, I'm sure the page can be found anyway (no robots.txt files forbidding access to it) but I just want to make sure.

    Thanks.
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      fourroses666 Reply #2, 12 years, 10 months ago
      If they are not in the source googles robots don't reach them I guess.
      If you use sitemap.xml and add this to google webmasters make sure it's not in there.
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        Jay Gilmore Reply #3, 12 years, 10 months ago
        Google will crawl weblinks in a nav. If the page is reachable, even if 301 or 302 redirect. AFAIK, google bot tries to mimic human following links.

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          Willi Waizenegger Reply #4, 12 years, 10 months ago
          Thank you!