Javascript Links and directing PR

[canuck]

I have been mulling over how to best direct the PR to my main webpages - the "money" pages. It seems most websites have a universal Menu for the entire website. However, many of the resources listed in the Menu do not need a high PR --- an example of this would be a "Contact" webpage or an "About" webpage. These webpages should be easily accessible to the user throughout the site, but on the other hand, I don't wish to channel too much PR to them.

So, this brought me to the idea of using a Javascript link for the webpages I don't wish to have a high PR on (and then index them instead via a Site Map). My initial idea for coding it is such:

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<A HREF="#" OnClick="document.location.href='/contact/';" OnMouseOut="window.status=''; return true" OnMouseOver="window.status='http://www.?.com/contact/'; return true">Contact Us</A>
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Note: The OnMouseOver/OnMouseOut is just for aesthetics, and the HREF="#" is to make the link function seemingly normal.

Any ideas or thoughts? I want to still have these items in my Menu throughout my website, however, I don't want to waste PR needlessly on them...

- canuck

[doc_z]

If you are using JavaScript Google won't see these pages and therefore no PR is transferred. This means that these pages don't appear in the index.
However, giving these pages a small PR instead of removing them completly from the index is perhaps the better way.

[canuck]

Yeah, I guess I didn't point this out clearly, but what I was getting at was using a Javascript link throughout the website to these 2nd'ary pages, and then indexing the pages via the Site Map so they would get a minor PR and be indexed by Google.

- canuck

[doc_z]

I think that's ok for Google. (But you might have a problem with people turning off JavaScript.)

To avoid wastages of PR don't create dead ends, i.e. put at least one link on a page which will be seen by Google. Also, to ensure that all pages are spidered I wouldn't decrease the PR of the site map.