Navbars and html code (SEO's again)

[V12CatMan]

I suspect this may have been covered but I can only find old posts. I have a site that has 26 pages and the home page has navbars only. The other pages have text links which appear fine. Lynx viewer shows no links to the other pages. While I have submitted a sitemap I don't like it. Here is what I see in page source:
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<div id="xr_xo0" class="xr_ap" style="left: 0; top: 0; width: 955px; height: 100px; visibility: hidden;">
<a href="" onclick="return(false);">
<img class="xr_ap" src="index_htm_files/16.png" alt="" style="left: 174px; top: 598px; width: 72px; height: 26px;"/>
<img class="xr_ap" src="index_htm_files/17.png" alt="" style="left: 179px; top: 391px; width: 72px; height: 26px;"/>
5 more links like the 2 above
</a>
</div>
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Is the visibility:"hidden" linked with this and is it going to get a penalty?

Do I need to use something else for my navbars? I will put a text based one on the bottom of the page for now.

[covoxer]

The entire "xr_xo0" div is just a mouseover layer. The objects with actual links are somewhere else in the source.
I don't think you'll get any penalty for it. A lot of pages on the web have pop-ups being initially invisible and activated by js. This is quite legal approach. Although, the content of these layers may be ignored by SE.

[V12CatMan]

The entire "xr_xo0" div is just a mouseover layer. The objects with actual links are somewhere else in the source.
I don't think you'll get any penalty for it. A lot of pages on the web have pop-ups being initially invisible and activated by js. This is quite legal approach. Although, the content of these layers may be ignored by SE.

Sorry John - posted wrong text. Here is the link section:
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<div id="xr_xd0"></div>
<div class="xr_ap" id="xr_xp38" style="left: 0; top: 0; visibility: hidden; display: none;">
<a href="products.php" onclick="return(xr_nn());">
<img class="xr_ap" src="index_htm_files/25.png" alt="" style="left: 316px; top: 180px; width: 109px; height: 26px; " onmousemove="xr_mo(this,38)"/>
</a>

etc.
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We'll see what happens soon - as Google read the robots.txt and the sitemap.txt file 3 hours ago. We'll see what gets indexed.

PS. As soon as I can take a breath I will update the php include () thread

[covoxer]

Well, "xr_xp38" div is a pop-up layer. All I say is true for this too. It's content may be ignored by SE but the page shouldn't be penalized. But yes, let's see what happens. You newer know for sure what Google picks up.

[slavelle]

FWIW: a site I did with XaraWD uses popup layers from the main page to bring up information about available speaking topics. When I do a search for text strings in those popup layers, they come up as indexed by google as the first hit and as part of the main page from which they are popped up.

Your mileage may vary.

[V12CatMan]

FWIW: a site I did with XaraWD uses popup layers from the main page to bring up information about available speaking topics. When I do a search for text strings in those popup layers, they come up as indexed by google as the first hit and as part of the main page from which they are popped up.

Your mileage may vary.

Good feedback! Google has started indexing the site - seems like 1 page per day
At this point I see where they have picked up words from the body of the page but nothing gets a hit using the navigation links. I'll really have to wait until all pages have been indexed before I do much analysis. I did add text link navigation to the bottom as well for safety sake but we'll see.