Archive for November, 2009
November 12th, 2009 | 
Author: I recently wrote about a script designed to generate Rotating Banners. The script works fine, but using JavaScript to present a user with links creates a few problems of its own:
- Google Analytics will not be able to track these external links (if, for instance, you’re using my Google Analytics for external links)
- Non-visual User Agents will not be able to access these links
- As a subset, Google will not be able to crawl these links and so associate your site with the sites those banners point to.
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I was recently sent a script designed to take a series of advertising banners and rotate them on a page. By ‘rotate’, I mean display on banner in a designated position and then, after a certain period of time, replace it with another, and then another, and so on. To be fair to those who paid for the banners, each banner was chosen at random so that each new visitor to the site would see a different banner first, second, third, etc. After taking a look at it, I spotted some problems and decided to fix them.
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