Mouseovers - good bad or ugly?

what does googlebot thing?

[RawAlex]

Okay, there is a debate going on at another site I visit...

What does googlebot think of mouseover coding used to turn long links into short links as they appear on a surfer's toolbar?

instead of widgetsite1.com/user/pass/linkcode=9990879&page = 3 a mouseover shows worldofwidgets.com (this is the world of widgets click thru program).

Is that considered deceptive or misleading?

Alex

[korkus2000]

Are you talking about using the status method to make it say something different in the status bar at the bottom than the link? I really don't think google cares. I would have to see a lot of proof that Google looks for this. A lot of WYSIWYG editors do this and it is very common on the web.

[edited by: korkus2000 at 12:43 pm (utc) on May 2, 2003]

[Chris_R]

I posted this in another thread - but just to point out - google does this on adwords - I doubt they have a problem with it.