Late last year I changed my navigation in hopes of being in keeping with the "one-click" trend...as in one click to get to where you want to be. I went with a CSS/JS drop down menu.

Now in site-related-keyword results I see words from my navigation menu showing up in results. Anyone know what's up with that?

Heaven help me if I have to change this yet again -- it took me 5 months to get that whole pig of a site changed. But I'm a little concerned because, as an example, I have a lot of different types of recipes on the site and when I use the site-related keyword tool, I get the word "recipe" no matter the page or content.

Is this going to affect all my search results in the SE's? AdWords will go with the keywords I choose though, correct? Thank you...

Just a quick thought: Since your menu structure is basically a <ul> , with embedded <li>s containing text for all your menu items, it will probably show up on every page, and your menu entries will show up too prominently for Google. Try a server-side include, e.g.

<!--#include file="navigation.inc" -->

where navigation.inc

contains something like that:

<script type="javascript>
document.write( "<ul>/n" );
document.write( " <li>..../n" );
.....
</script>

That should cause Google to avoid using your menu texts.

JNeuhoff

That's a good idea -- except that means changing every single page again...oh no! There's over 10,000 pages on that site...

What is this site-related keyword tool of which you speak?

contains something like that:

<script type="javascript>
document.write( "<ul>/n" );
document.write( " <li>..../n" );
.....
</script>

That should cause Google to avoid using your menu texts.

And it will avoid the inconvience of search engines being able to find your other pages.
After all SE crawlers all over the site just uses bandwidth.

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What is this site-related keyword tool of which you speak?

oops, sorry -- was referring to Google AdWords Keyword Tool where you can look up site-related keywords.

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My bad on that one ... thanks for the heads up. I did that a couple times but didn't see that link at the top. (And I'm not even blond...)

I'm still a little confused on using a JS menu, though -- would it still work as a drop-down of I used the document.write? Well, guess I could try it and see, huh...but I'd rather ask first! Thanks.

Ahhh okay. I can't really help you all that much, then. I don't use Adwords.

Before you use a JS menu, consider what your non-JS users will have to do in order to access the menu. If you can solve that issue, then you're fine.

I hear you Adam! That's why I went with the CSS menu instead -- seems a person just can't win sometimes, huh...