hyperlinks that CANNOT be spidered

creating links to bookmarks on page that won't be spidered

[beezee]

An unusual request, perhaps, but i'd like to be able to create a few hyperlinks at the top of a page that will link to bookmarks on that same page but I do NOT want those links to be 'seen' by search engines. How might i create such hyperlinks that googlebot, as example, can NOT spider?

Thanks.

[seofreak]

<a href="#" onclick="window.location='http://www.domain.com';return false;">text link</a>

has been working for months for me. neither google sees nor does alltheweb

[beezee]

thanks, seofreak, but something's not right because when i run your exact code thru [searchengineworld.com...] it sees the link.

am i doing something wrong?

[mcavic]

that will link to bookmarks on that same page

If you're talking about a link like h*tp://domain.com/index.html#bottom

Search engines will ignore the # and everything after it anyway.

[beezee]

yes, I've noticed that, mcavic. but isn't it spider-UN-friendly to have the first several links on a page be links to that very same page?

www.site.com/#bookmark1 = www.site.com
www.site.com/#bookmark2 = www.site.com
www.site.com/#bookmark3 = www.site.com

Or is that a rule I just make rule up myself?!

[mcavic]

Hmm. I don't know. If I were a spider, that would seem strange to me, but I probably wouldn't mind.

[kaled]

I don't do much HTML coding but surely HREF="#target" in the links will achieve the required result. Spiders will ignore such links.

Am I missing something?

Kaled.

[netnerd]

javascript include it using document.write and robots.txt deny the include file. Simple!

[beezee]

Yeah, now you're talking, NetNerd. I was thinking javascript might be an answer. Would you (or someone else) paste in some code? Less is more - just what's needed to get the job done. You guys rock. Thanks!