Deceptive Redirect

Is this another hijacker's trick?

[Lorel]

I found a new method of listing sites in a directory that looks like a new method of hijacking websites. When you run your mouse over the link in their directory all you see is "javascript://" and not the URL.

Also I find the fact that they have broken up the www and other parts of the URL to be highly suspicious of something devious going on here.

Can someone tell me what this javascript is doing and if this is indeed preventing passing of PR and could it be doing harm to the site being redirected to?

They also used a fake title for the site they linked to and it was picked up by Amazon/Alexa, et. al. so now the fake title is all over the internet.

PS. I have replaced the site being linked to with "Domain".

<a class="title" href="javascript://"
onClick="doredir('htt','p://ww','w.DOMAIN.com/');return false;"
onFocus="ssb('htt','p://ww','w.DOMAIN.com/')"
onMouseOver="ssb('htt','p://ww','w.DOMAIN.com/'); return true;"
onMouseOut="window.status='';">

[milanmk]

Can someone tell me what this javascript is doing and if this is indeed preventing passing of PR and could it be doing harm to the site being redirected to?

YES. This type of link does not pass any PR to the target URL as its been encoded by Javascript and search engine bot does not recognise URL's encoded in Javascript.

[Lorel]

Thanks Milanmk,

Just as I suspected.