"neutral" outbound links

is there a "proper" way to do this?

[frox]

I need to link to certain external sites, and I would like to to it without having the "side effects" of linking (like PR transfer, bad effects of linking to "ill-behaved sites" etc.)

I have thought about several ways to do it, but I am not quite sure which is the most effective / correct to do it.

1) rel=nofollow (but is it really effective from this point of view?)

2) Link with a Javascript redirect (But G does follow Javascriopt links, doesn't it?)

3) Link with a 30n redirect (but I don't want to hurt the linked sites either!)

4) link with a dummy form action="#*$!x.com" method=POST, and a javascript form.submit (I think G does not follow the POST actions)

any suggestion / opinion?

In case someone is wondering, I need this because I want to add a user-submitted directory to my site.

BUT, as my site is quite well ranked, I want to do this without risking in any way to hamr myself.

I mean, if there is any way that this directory can hurt my ranking, then I'll just dump the idea :-)

[SebastianX]

>I need this because I want to add a user-submitted directory to my site

REL='nofollow' ¦¦ REL='external nofollow'