seo - Hiding products behind a form -
Let's make a mile that sells tires. I think it will be the best user friendly - to hide my products behind the search form, where you can select the tire dimension, price range etc.
I've been told that Google never submits a form when crawling a site, so if I want to hide one, products by using a form, is Google ever indicating my products ?
If not, how can I do the best thing around it? I was thinking about doing a regular menu with category submenus (brand, price range, speed limit etc.) so that Google could crawl my links and then use the JavaScript menu to change with a form . Then Google will crawl the link and the user will browse through the form. But if I have 3,000 products, can it cause duplicate content, the flag for link spam, (if there is any such thing) etc.?
If the only way to find your products is to complete and submit a form, then not , Google and no other search engine will be able to find and point to that content. You have a few options to get around this:
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There is an HTML sitemap on your site, which is also linked to your products. Along with having a good way of creating an internal link with good anchor text, it allows search engines to alternate the medium to find that content.
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Submit an XML Sitemap is similar to an HTML sitemap, except that it is in XML and is not visible publicly.
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Use progressive increments and there is a menu available for users who do not have JavaScript turned on. Then recreate the functionality of your form using Javascript (assuming that the applicability increases).
You should not run in the case of any duplicate content, unless you can not use the same product until the URL. None of the above should be such. But if you have implemented your products, then it may be possible to use the Canon URL to identify the main URL. Then if the search engines see many pages for the same content then they know which main page is and include it in their search results.
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