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Initial Email From: Margie
Initial Email Subject: SEO Visibility
Support Case Month: February 2013

Hi .. am using All Web Menus Pro 5.3   Are the search engines able to read it?  
Thanks,
Margie

Reply From: Likno Customer Support

Hello,

The standard AllWebMenus menu has all its content within the JavaScript files, so search engines that are not able to access JS files will not see it.

There are two tricks you can do to increase your SEO:

First you can create a “sitemap” page (AllWebMenus will generate it automatically for you). If you link this page to your index page (even as a link not noticeable to the human eye) the search engine crawlers will follow it and discover all the menu links. To do this, have a look under “Tools->Create Sitemaps”.

Second, you can turn your menu into a UL/LI menu. This means that you will have to insert the menu content into every single page (the same way you would do with a CSS menu). This of course adds more maintenance, but the menu links are visible in all pages. If you choose this option, we recommend that you use an include file so that you only have to edit the menu content in a single place if you want to change something in the menu in the future.

You can find more details about both methods in the project properties:

Best Regards,
Kostas
Likno Customer Support
www.likno.com
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Reply From: Margie

Hi .. 
Thank you so much!  As always!
Margie

Knowledge Base support case for AllWebMenus,  abstracted and stripped of all user’s private info.

Initial Email From: Paolo
Initial Email Subject: menu images
Support Case Month: November 2012

Hello again,

Are the menus seen as html or as image from browsers/spiders?
There is one thing that I couldn’t manage yet. How do I show an image/icon before the text/name of main menu and sub menu items? Right now if I set an image than it doesn’t show the text anymore…

Thanks,
Paolo

Reply From: Likno Customer Support

Dear Paolo,

The menus are JavaScript, so they are not directly visible from browsers, in order to avoid “spamming” due to repetition of the same links. This is why you should use the “SiteMap” which you can automatically product from AllWebMenus, and add it to your page for the best SEO performance. (look in Tools for more info)

Regarding the image, do you want to have an image per item, for example on the left side of the text? If so, then you need to specify this in the Project Assets:

If you want an image on the left of all the menu (not part of an item), then you need to use the “header” properties:

Make sure that you also check the relative Style properties:

Best Regards,
Aris Filokostas
Likno Customer Support
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Knowledge Base support case for AllWebMenus, abstracted and stripped of all user’s private info.

Initial Email From: Bob
Initial Email Subject: AllWebMenus and SEO
Support Case Month: July 2012

I have a question regarding AWM.  We are working with someone rebuilding the navigation on our website.  We built our basis with AWM.  He then told us that your program would not support SEO.  I thought that I had read in a few places that it will.  When we are using links in our Navigation will they be recognized by SEO if we build and compile with AWM?

Thanks,
Bob

Reply From: Likno Customer Support

Dear Bob,

It does indeed support SEO in two different ways. The first is by using the included sitemap generators (under the “Tools” menu). The second is by using a “ULLI” menu in which case the menu structure (and links) is directly included in every page.

Please check the “SEO” section under Project Properties for more details.

Let me know if you need more specific help.

Regards,
Kostas
Likno Customer Support
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Reply From: Bob

Thanks for the info on the SEO.  When we get to that point we will let you know if we have more questions!

Bob

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Initial Email From: Stan
Initial Email Subject: XML Sitemap for http://sukiskincare.com/
Support Case Month: April 2012

The site http://sukiskincare.com/ was built with many AllWebMenus (as required by the designers).  Is there a simple way to generate an XML and Google sitemap for all pages of the site?

Reply From: Likno Customer Support

Hello Stan,

We do have a similar feature in AllWebMenus ("Create Sitemap"), however this cannot be applied in your case because:

1. One of your menus (the main menu) is a "mega menu" which means that many items are actually entire HTML (with many links etc.) and this HTML cannot be included in a sitemap entry (which requires just links).

2. Each project will create its own sitemap. There is no functionality for creating a "global" sitemap derived from multiple menu projects.

So, I am afraid that this cannot be done with AllWebMenus (which has this feature for "simple" and single menus) but you can definitely do this easily by using the Google Webmaster tools:
http://www.google.com/webmasters/

This is more appropriate as it will index all your pages, even the ones that are not included in the menu.

Best Regards,
Aris Filokostas
Likno Customer Support
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Reply From: Stan

Ok, thank you.

Hey everybody,

We have released a new version of AllWebMenus Pro: Version 5.3 build #866.

Check out What's New:

- Improved iPhone support. Now if you "touch" an item with an open submenu, the submenu closes.

- Improved the behavior of "floating menus" so that their movement does not appear flickering.

- In "Link Compiled Menu..." the filetype dropdown box now remembers the last user selection.

- Added the ability to change the Start Menu group during the installation.

- Fixed an issue where the "Advanced Floating" feature with the "Instantly" option did not work properly. Also, changed the behavior so that if the "Floating Movement Ends" object doesn't exist in the page, the floating ends at the end of page.

- Fixed an issue where a warning appeared related to an "aRsF function" (Safari only).

- Fixed an issue where the "Unfolding effect" did not clip subgroups as it should (Opera 11+ only).

- Fixed an issue where the Generic Sitemap did not work properly. Also the default view changed.

- Fixed an issue where a group didn't appear on mouse over of parent item, if this item was auto highlighted without opening the group automatically on page load.

- Server-Side menus set to have "cursor: auto" now have "hand" instead of "arrow" for all dynamic items.

Download the new version at http://www.likno.com/download.html