Adding local weather stats to site

Don't want outbound link on page.

[southernmost]

I'm looking to ad local weather stats (temperature and date) to my travel site. In the past, I put up a little banner from a weather site, I'm concerned that this is draining PR from my homepage.
How do you ad this local information without making a clickable link out of the site?

[kevinpate]

add a link from your home page to an internal page called weather. On your weather page, have a few weather related outbound links (the number is up to you, just make them useful links for your visitors.) Also have a few links to other internal pages in your site and a link back to the home page.

You'll probably 'leak' less PR that way. Frankly, one outbound link on your home page shouldn't make ya or break ya, and it is less work, but hey, it's your site, your time.

[southernmost]

thanks kevin. i'm still thinking about options.

[treeline]

There are several weather scripts that allow you to show current conditions on your page. Most extract their data from the national weather service. You can either write your own script to do this, or for a small fee have one that doesn't require a link back. Sites like cgi resources list weather scripts.

[ControlEngineer]

Both Weather.com (the Weather Channel) and Intellicast have services that will allow you to include some html code (which includes the zip code) and will display a small graphic on your site with local conditions for the zip code you use. Users will not leave your site unless they click on the weather graphic to get more information.

There may be other services as well.