block search engines following links

would a jump.cgi file work?

[privateservices]

hello there,
i donot wish to throw my PR away, esp when im linking to site that will not be linking back to me,

so the question is how can i link to a site without the search engines following the links?

i donot wish to promote this kind of act, but i do not wish to give my PR away.

thankyou.
steve.

[jorj]

Google's new rule into anchors: nofollow

[specter]

Pay attention. It could result in a penalty or banning...

[neuron]

why don't you just throw them in a frame?

I guess frames have lost their popularity. (what is a frame?)

one of the reasons frames lost their popularity is because their contents were not indexable by the search engines. neither the text nor the links therein. c'est la vie.

now, you want to link to other sites but you don't want the links to be indexed by the search engines. why even bother to link to them?

I don't want to go anthropological or ethical on you, but PR is something that is meant to be shared, just like good genes, shared and shared a lot.

the best solutions to building site PR all give PR away. to build site PR you need friends, and lots of them. to make friends you have to learn to share. hording PR keeps you from making friends.

perhaps you should think of PR as karma. what you give comes back to you, reap what you sow, do unto others as you would have them do for you, or any other brethren for brethren idiom across the ages.

the fact is the web is made of sites that link to each other. are you are part of that or do you want to stay at home?

(Note: the nofollow command was implemented mainly[insofar as it affects me] as a way for sites subject to link abuse to police their own sites of such abuse), it was not implemented for the purpose of making it easier to horde PR. use it with care.

[sem4u]

Pay attention. It could result in a penalty or banning...

Explain this one to me and how you came to that conclusion...

I wouldn't worry about any PR drain. I would use the no follow attribute if you want to do this.

[graywolf]

Linking out is not bad! It's even part of Brett's 26 steps [webmasterworld.com]. It took me a while to get my head wrapped around it, but once you see your outbound anchor text actually helps you rank, you'll start doing it.

[specter]

Explain this one to me and how you came to that conclusion...

I wouldn't worry about any PR drain. I would use the no follow attribute if you want to do this.

It's not a conclusion.It's the result of a debate in another thread I've open,that unfortunately I'm not able to find.
It was came up that there are no indications if the rel "nofollow" attribute could be really used securely.
Google (and others) in fact could recognize PR drain or funneling as manipulation and so as spam promotion tactic with obvious consequences.
So I wouldn't risk...

[privateservices]

well im just worried as im not entering any link exchanges as i find them "tacky" and i want to keep as much PR as i possibly can,
as i have placed my link on every single link directory i can find..
i already have a good ranking with google for a few keywords but i dont want any lower as i may be booted of the first results page

[specter]

This is the aim of every Webmaster,but there is the possibility that channeling PR or avoid to giving it outbound "annoys" SEs ranking criteria just based upon the free links exchange.
Try to think if each existing web site doesn't link no longer anyone...

[specter]

Oooh! Finally I found the thread; read this:

[webmasterworld.com...]

[martinibuster]

The Dark Side of Exchanging Links
[webmasterworld.com...]

[jamesa]

>> how can i link to a site without the search engines following the links?

Put your jump cgi in a robots.txt protected directory