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Any ideas?
It's not worth the bother. The ranking benefits you would receive from using such a strategy would be minuscule (really). It's also unfair to your link partners.
Maybe figure out how PR works before you consider playing with it. This strategy is one of the most over-used, pointless strategies going.
Seems a bit dishonest, doesn't it?
Technically, if a page is in robots.txt that means "don't spider this." Google does index pages without spidering by finding links to them. Including on other sites. Robots.txt isn't violated unless a page is spidered.
Works fine with Google on our sites.
Maybe figure out how PR works before you consider playing with it. This strategy is one of the most over-used, pointless strategies going.
Absolutely. PageRank is based on a page not a site, so having google NOT index the links page will in no way benefit the rest of your site.
In other words, the PR on your index page will not magically drain away through your links page. It just doesnt work like that.
For his own site this strategy is worser than doing nothing (i.e. having no robots.txt file) ...
*lol*
I would like to stop my links page getting page rank
I think the correct answer to the original question is: do *not* link to your links page from any other page of your site --and send a "cease & desist" to other sites that link to it... ;-)
Yes, but fortunately (IMHO) the "regulars" tend to frown upon this behavior.
Any thoughts on correlation between WebmasterWorld member level and (perceived) ethics? ;-)
as for us current users, we are all whiter than white, right ;)
I have a web page where I have a bunch of links to stuff I find fun and interesting but I also have links to a few friends' websites. I want the PR to go to the friends' websites and not the fun/interesting things. So I use redirects on the fun/interesting links and direct links on the friends' links. Of course, I'm a newb and only assuming this works.
Did somoene say that he's hurting his own PR by NOT letting his PR transfer? I thought PR was outbound only.
Little wonder Google has decreased the importance of PR, it must know what is going down on the sleazy side of town.
Why is everyone assuming he wants to do "dishonest things"?
Hmm, I didn't. I was looking to establish the facts, but he hasn't replied.
So far we do know that he is not looking to hide links on his home page or products page. He specifically mentioned "links page".
Svengalie seems new to the forums. Svengalie, come back and tell us all that none of the sites on the links page actually link back to you and that you've created this page purely to put what you believe are one way outbound links. Or come back and tell us that you may rethink this policy :-)
And we'll all say "Welcome to the forum"
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I am crosslinking my sites, google will (I feel) like some other search engines penalize me for doing this. I have a differnt website for all our differnt product ranges.
Each product range has a totally seperate side to the business, each with a differnt phone number and each with differnt staff.
That said Lycos have still dropped me, along with Inktomi.
So not only do I not want the search engines to find the links, I also don't want google to think the reason I'm doing this is to pass pagerank.
However I would still like my users to see my other websites and product ranges.
I hope this makes sense.
<a href="#" onclick="window.location='http://www.othersite.com';return false;" onMouseOver="window.status='http://www.othersite.com';return true;" onmouseout="window.status='';return true;" Target="_blank">Other Site</a>
isn't read as a link, although I'm happy to corrected :)
...and a bit late now but - Welcome to the Forum!
To stop search engines following individual links, the most reliable way is probably to use the javascript document.write method to create simple HTML links dynamically. If you are worried about whole urls being detected in the source code, use string manipulations to break up them up.
So you could create a function WriteLink(url,text); and call it thus :-
WriteLink("http://www.examp" + "le.com","Example.Com - Fab site");
Kaled.
PS
Before calling the document.write method, you should call the document.open method, however, most browsers do not require it.
There are perfect examples [webmasterworld.com] of why you would sometimes like Google not to follow certain links.
Personally I like to alter Kaled's script and place the code inline like this:
<script type="text/JavaScript"> var n1='www.examp'; var n2='le.com';
document.write('<a href=\"http://' + n1 + n2 + '\">');</script>
www.example.com
<script type="text/JavaScript"> document.write('<\/a>');</script>
That way, people who have disabled JavaScript on their browsers will still be able to see the address even though they can't click it.
It was fun to read, everyone (except for HughMungus) assuming bad intention :)
Btw, IMO it's really annoying to have to hide honest links from Google just because you also own the linked to page :(
Google's statement: "Build your page for your visitors and it will rank high".
I understand that there are webmasters who achieve their ranking from solely crosslinking their sites. But do I really have to hide links because of that?
The question really is whether such links gets you penalized or are just ignored. I would favor the latter.
