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Making a site less crawlable [was: Who are you working for?]

One of our tasks as SEO's is making a site crawlable; to make the site as search engine friendly as possible and to provide the spiders with the link roads and site roadmaps they need to boldly go where earlier no bot could or would.

Much of how we look at a site is approached from that angle. When we see a form, a dropdown, we wonder if it can be crawled. We don't see a neat Flash animation; we see questions about crawlability and which extracted link will call up which portion of that file.

You can't blame us then when we get lost, unable to see the trees through the forest.

Is absolute indexability of every URL parameter on your site a must?

Whose mission do you serve by making everything accessible? Who do you work for? What's in your best interest?

How can you take people by the hand and give them the smoothest ride to destinations desired but unknown via click paths that feel as intuitive and well duh! as flipping a light switch?

What's Information Architecture?

What do you do to have the right pages indexed for the right keywords? Do you use any special tricks to force search engines hands?

To think about: