links from & to your site

target=_top, target=_new no target at all, does it matter to google?

[tankman]

For my link exchange program I request that they have my link on their site with target=_new (open a new window) instead of the link openning within the same page it was clicked on.

Has anyone had any experience on wether google would prefer one or the other or even care?

[marcs]

Did some quick checking and a site we link to with target="_blank" shows up in backlinks on Google for that site.

I imagine target="_new" would do the same. To make sure, check it on your site the way I did for ours.

[Pitufo]

If you use target="_new" you are defining a window name, this hasn't special meaning. Use it twice and see results, it's like if you use target="test".

The special target names are:

_self
_top
_blank
_parent

It seems HTML says this is case-insensitive, but some browsers only 'think' in lower case.