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Fair enough I thought, after finding them all to be from www?.website.com, they must have put some navigation in to link to the new shopping subdomain.
Interestingly though, the link is only found in the JavaScript drop down menus the main site uses.
Notes: the subdomain has been live for less than 2 weeks and the only links i am aware of that have ever gone to the subdomain from the main site were in the javascript.
the main site is a high PR site with many backlinks to it.
Example of code:
<script language="JavaScript">
<!--
var Array = [ "<a class='Link' href='http?://www.website.com/research/'>Research by Topic</a>", "<a class='Link' href='http?://www.website.com/research.asp'>List of Research Documents</a>", "<a class='Link' href='http?://shop.website.com'>Shop - New Service</a>", "<span style='color: #000066;'>---------------------</span>", ""];
//-->
</script>
(obviously a bit altered to hide identity of site and hopefully kill any links )
Is this new or has Google been behaving like this for a while?
I was always taught JavaScript is not parsed by spiders but in this case the hyperlink is pretty standard HTML, just contained within a Script tag so i guess it's not the same as a link with an onClick referencing the page to follow to or a programmatic dynamic link value.
Anyway, just my observation for the day.
Look forward to hearing your views.
If you dig around, you can find examples of .txt files showing up as backlinks simply because there is a url in the file.
If you dig around, you can find examples of .txt files showing up as backlinks simply because there is a url in the file.
Yep, I have one of those, (internal link from a .txt file to the index page)
useful information indeed.
maybe it's a thing that google does not need to distinguish between javascript and text within as with robots:index, follow tag.
