Summarize your question.Sitemap blocking or not blocking that is the question?

[Nightwing]

Hi from wet & overcast wetherby UK

Ones question is this...

" Is the sitemap plus boxes blocking bots ie they cant pass on this page http://www.langleys.com/Site-Map.aspx "

Its just the + boxes that concern me, i remeber reading somewherte javascript nav can be toxic.

Is there a way to test javascript nav set ups and see if they block bots or not?

Thanks in advance

[Nobody1560986989723]

I use Screaming Frog SEO Spider (free version) to check the internal link structure of a website. If a page is blocking ALL spiders it will pick it up.

Another thing I would say would be to check in Google Webmaster Tools to see if there are any crawl errors.

And the last thing I would add is to make sure that you have a non-JavaScript way to find all the pages on your website - through strong internal linking or a manual sitemap page that isn't generated through JS.

Hope this helps