Adding a href tag to an image that a user cant access only the bot

[humpingdan]

img src="http://www.widget.com/images/widget.gif" alt="Google Logo" width="200" height="150"><ahref="lotsoftext.htm">

when used in a html page this create an image so wide so heigh but with out the click property, in other words you see the href in the html but the user of the page cannot naivigate to that page from clicking the image - promise!

But this os only useful if google can follow it, i would suspect that the links should probably be [widgets.com...] instead of the appreviated version, but if anyone can shed any light on this snippet then plz do!

[netcommr]

If I wanted to stop a link from being clicked, I would stop the event through javascript and change the mouseover curser to the page default.

I tend to think that bad code is just bad.

[GrinninGordon]

I think Google would love this code, but you might not after they reindex ;-)

[Dave_Hawley]

Just the sort of trick that could cost you LOTS of lost traffic I would say.

It's good thing this forum is premoderated :o)

Dave

[humpingdan]

so what are we saying here...would the above code be followed by google or not?

[netcommr]

no, 'ahref' is not a valid tag and will be ignored