Do Javascript text links count as links?

[paradoxos]

Do links within text/javascript count as links?

[larryhatch]

Within text, if you insert a standard
<a> href=http://www.domain.com type link, then yes definitely.
Opinions differ on js baloney links like www.badguy.com/sites.php?site1234

Its possible that SOME of those are counted by the SEs,
depending on
syntax and methods, but I tend to doubt it. I sure don't count them
as incoming links, and hold those who create them in low regard to put it mildly. -LH

[monkeythumpa]

No they don't. The spiders don't read javascript so the link will not be picked up. If you have valuable content in a pop-up you might want to consider moving it into your page and link with an "a href".

I am not sure what Larry is reffering to as "js baloney" but appending the url with information will make the spider think it is a different page.

[Prolific]

Actually, google does pick them up. I have a site with a 'view more images' popup window for each product. Each of those are passed to a JS function that opens a new window. ALL of the 'view more images' pages are indexed in google (200+). I suppose it depends on your code, but google figured mine out easily enough.

[paradoxos]

We are asking users to add this script to their site:

<script language="javascript" src="http://www.oursite.com/show.js"></script>

In the script are links but on the Source Code they can't be seen.

[limitup]

If you're asking in regards to your own site, just use nofollow and you can control where you send your internal PR.

[paradoxos]

Asking from external site pointing back to our site.

[albo]

I hope this thread is not too old for recirculation... my within-site links are currently dhtml-writeln driven. I DO have a robots.txt and an overall META.HTML file but I don't know, from what you're saying, what to put in these files to promote crawling between other files. Do I just need to put sufficient keywords in the index.html and the index-referenced meta.html so that the other html files may be ignored? (I can understand that the crawler won't read my one external javascript file for clues as to where to go for links.)