PageRank value of indirect links

Link is through redirect that also frames the destination

[seindal]

Hi,

A site is linking to my site, but indirectly and my site is framed with a header from the originating site.

Their link looks like this:

http://fromsite.com/cgi-bin/glk?http://mysite.com/

The resulting pages is a frameset, with their header on top and http://mysite.com/ below.

Is this a way of giving away less PR to sites linked to? The frameset has a much lower PR than the page with the first link, so the PR given to my pages is reduced in this way, right? The link is reciprocal, but my link to them might be worth more than their link to me, even though their page has a higher PR than mine.

They have not placed /cgi-bin/glk in their robots.txt, so google should see the frameset.

I don't like my page being framed, but can I legitimately require them not to do so?

I know I can get out of the frameset with a bit of javascript, which I am going to do, but that is not the point.

René.

PS I haven't given the actual URIs. We're not allowed to here, right?

[Brett_Tabke]

>Is this a way of giving away less PR to sites linked to?

Not really. It is a way to control the destination and raise the changes by hundreds of percent that the visitor will stay on their site. Don't ever let anyone knowingly frame your site. Insert some simple frame buster code to over ride it. Framing another site is often referred to as low rent page jacking.

[seindal]

I have inserted the frame-buster code. Fortunately it is easy:

<SCRIPT TYPE="text/javascript" LANGUAGE="JavaScript">
<!--
if (self!= top) top.location.href = self.location.href;
// -->
</SCRIPT>

As for PR, I guess it really doesn't matter in this specific case, as I do get quite a bit of trafic from that link.

René.