Would a link inside a Form tag effect the PR transfer?

[Jon_King]

I found my link (that I've been spending a considerable amount of money for) on a high PR site inside of a Form tag.

Will this hurt the PR transfer? It has been there for 3 months with no effect in my rankings and so I was investigating the problem when I happened across the form tag... any info on this?

[willybfriendly]

If it is in a drop down menu (i.e <select><option>) and the link is via the form submit button, then I do not believe that you are getting any PR benefit from it.

I would like to here that this is wrong if more experienced folk know differently.

WBF

[rogerd]

Google is better at finding links buried in scripts and the like. At Pubcon, their comment was, "if it looks like a URL we'll try to treat it like one". Look at the source for the page and see if there's a clear URL in there (as opposed to a link number or similar). If there is, there's at least a chance Google will find it.

Nevertheless, I'd certainly try for a straight HTML link if you can.

[topr8]

i would just ask them to move the link from inside the form tag - this will save you wondering.

if they say no then ... obviously they know something you don't

if they say yes then either it was an error or not a deliberate ploy.

(there may be other reasons well documented at WebmasterWorld why pr is not passing to your site)

this example highlights how careful you must be when making agreements with people: BE SPECIFIC or you may not get what you thought.

naturally i would also remind anyone that it is against the TOS of Google to try and buy pagerank