Links to banned areas

Well this result in PR leakage?

[Darkness]

I have lots of links to a banned directory(through robots.txt) all throughout my site, will linking to this directory result in PR leakage or wasted PR all over my site?

e.g. I have a page with 10 links, 5 linking to the banned directory and 5 linking to other areas, will only 50% of the PR on that page be transferred?

[SEO practioner]

Hello Darkness and welcome to webmaster world!

PR leakage cannot happen within the confines of your own domain.

PR leakage can happen if you link outside of your domain. In that case yes, it can happen. But from what you'r saying, I see no problem here.

Good luck :-)

[Darkness]

Thanks for the reply

Why do you say it can't happen inside a domain?

Another example :

- a 10 page site
- homepage has pr6 and lots of links from the outside, the sub pages have no outside links
- homepage has 10 links with 9 going to 9 pages within /banned directory and 1 going to /page2.html

Are you saying that page 2 will have the full pr 6 transferred to it? If so I am happy :) If not I might have to find a way of hiding the links.

[ciml]

Last time I checked, /page2.html would get 1/9 of the PageRank. On the Toolbar scale the affect would be less than 3/4 of one PR notch.

[rogerd]

Darkness, I haven't run this exact test, but I think that the links to the unspiderable pages will still be viewed as links from a PR calculation standpoint - they just won't reap any PR benefit because they won't be spidered or indexed.

[Darkness]

That's what I feared, it means I am basically losing 50% of pr for each level/depth on the site.

Thanks for the info, I will see if I can get javascript to hide them, although reading other threads it looks like google may be able to understand these soon.