Are my graphical top level nav button links read by google spider

[jonniewap]

I have a site hypeled.com - the top level nav buttons are images.

I have checked in Fireworks (with style off) and Lynx how the site appears to the Google spider and the top level links are not visible in either representation.

In the source code the links have alt tags -

The buttons are CSS and are referenced like this:

<a <span="">class</a><a <span="">="company" href="</a>/the-company/">

Does google read these links? Does google read the source code of the site and give the proper weight to the top level links?

Thank you,

Jonathon

[Marcus_Miller]

Hey Jonathon

Google can follow these links, but it is not ideal.

In the webmaster guidelines they state:

Make a site with a clear hierarchy and text links. Every page should be reachable from at least one static text link.

So, if these are your only links then it may be a problem but you could just get around this with a sitemap or some such but I would prefer to lose those or add a secondary text based nav. You could likely achieve the same look and use text for the links as well with some jazzy CSS.

Hope this helps!
Marcus

Ref:

http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=35769