Sitemaps and Hypertext Links: “Food” for Search Engine Robots: “Search engine robots are not terribly sophisticated. They cannot click a button, submit a form, pull down a menu, or perform any other type of online “user interaction” that might be used by a human visitor. Robots are able to index the text on a page and click through hypertext links. For this reason, adding navigational text links to your web pages (often located at the bottom of the page) provides the search engine robots with another means to click through the links of your web pages when it cannot access these other types of navigation.” From SearchEngineGuide.com.
URLs:
http://www.searchengineguide.com/goetsch/2003/0311_dg1.html
http://www.searchengineguide.com
