Javascript - Google

[mikemcs]

What is the least thinking on how to use javascript for links you dont want google to follow (To keep pr higher for other links)?

[Patrick Taylor]

Hello! If you search these forums for (eg) "javascript links" you'll find tons of information, some of it very recent.

[tedster]

There are two issues here:

1. spidering a url discovered in javascript
2. passing PR

People have not always been precise in their language about those two different things. More and more, if googlebot sees what "might be" a url (in javacript, or a form element, or a src= attribute, etc) it will try that url to see if there's anything there to spider.

But as far as I can see, PR does not pass this way, even if the url results in a spider visit.

[BigDave]

I agree with tedster. Google spiders the pages that I link to that way, but they do not get any PR.

I don't do it to save PR, I do it because those pages were bringing me irrelevant traffic bay ranking high for terms that I don't care about.

If they are internal pages, link with JS using the pathname instead of the full URL. That way Google is less sure that it is infact an URL.

[egomaniac]

put the link in a remote javascript file, and no PR will be passed.