Alternate to anchor linking

[djtaverner]

Is there any way of avoiding using the <a> tag to link between pages.

Could you write a script that was loaded when you clicked on text which would load another web page?

In doing this it would be possible to reduce the number of outgoing links from a page visible by google and therefore improve your page rank.

any ideas

Cheers
Dave

[nileshkurhade]

Is using Flash a alternative

[soapystar]

whats wrong with java script?

i presume you mean linking between sites rather than pages?

[djtaverner]

I dont know much javascript, do you know of any tutorials etc on how to code this method.

djt

[nileshkurhade]

djtaverner

try your query in
[webmasterworld.com...]

[Marcia]

In doing this it would be possible to reduce the number of outgoing links from a page visible by google and therefore improve your page rank.

The number of links on a page isn't relevant to the amount of Page Rank the page has; that depends on the inbound links the page is receiving to it from other pages.

How many outbound links there are can affect how much PR is being conferred upon the pages being linked out to from that page - including other pages on your own site. So from that aspect if you decrease the number of outbound links on a page to increase the value of each you could indirectly benefit from getting fed back a little more PR to that page from the other pages of your site.

But is it only PR you're looking at for its own sake, or are you also looking at other factors that can affect the scoring of a site overall?

[gerwin]

If you are using Javascript though for scripting on the page you would not find your site in Google on those keywords.

[kaled]

It is believed by many (but not by all) that outward links can be beneficial to SERPS. Hence, directories often do well.

You may be barking up the wrong tree.

Kaled.

[idoc]

So far the winners of the day for the latest google update are:

"Cloaked Spam" sites with up to hundreds of outgoing links per page to internal pages.

Directory sites

Mega shopping sites

Most of this could go into another thread, but the common key for me so far in these sites that google now prefers is massive sites and internal link structure. So I would also concur, it probably is the wrong tree. Could be there is more credit for internal links now than is lost by linking out to your own pages. Time will tell.

[glitterball]

Whenever I link to an external website from my homepage, I drop about 15 positions in the SERPS for my main term. I have seen this happen several times.

The external sites usually have low Page Rank.

[Mr_PHP]

Hello djtaverner,

Of course... use the onClick (or onMouseDown) attribute!
For example:
<div onClick="window.location='http://www.yoursite.com'">text here</div>
- OR -
<table><tr>
<td onClick="window.location='http://www.yoursite.com'">text here</td>
</tr></table>

And use <u> tags to make it look like links
Don't understand the whole point of this though.. :-)

Arno