should I replace regular links to a framed page of another site by JS?

Would this keep the PR of my page higher?

[pvdm]

Hi,

an association has members having their own sites. But all use some parts of the assiociation's site for products and payments.

This results in each of those member's sites having a minimum of 5-10 links to framed pages of the association's pages, which are not crawled nor PR's by Google. It looks like all the PR's given away by the outgoing links from the member's site are lost.

Would it be better for each member's page to replace all those PR draining regular links by Javascript links? Or CGI links?

What would be better, and how to replace for example:

<a href="http://www.associationsite.com/Pages/default.asp?language=en&amp;page=shopping.asp"> by a link that doesn't drain PR away from this page?

If Javascript, internal or external file?

Thanks for your help!

[JamesR]

hi pvdm,

check out this thread:

PR hunting techniques [webmasterworld.com]

read to the second page for Googleguy's response which is useful

[pvdm]

Hi James,

thanks for the link. I read it carefully. However, correct me if I am wrong, my impression is a link to a product ordering engine, or to a secure payment engine does not 'add' value to the content of a site. That's why I see no harm in trying to protect the PR value of all those individual sites by replacing them with JS links. Each individual site has at least 10 to 20 'regular' outbound links anyway.

I understand Googleguy keeping an eye on sites trying to maximize their authority value and minimizing their hub value. That's not my intend. Even without the 'worthless' outbound links, each site still has 10-20 regular links.

Of course, if some penalty is in the air that changes the rules, the decision is to keep the situation like it is. But CAN Google change? With so many big name sites using CGI and JS, I hardly can believe there can be a penalty for that. Except of course when a page has many inbound links, and around the same number of outbound links, all CGI or JS. That's what he meant I suppose with authority vs hub.

I am still confused...

[ciml]

Unless a good proportion of the links from the member's home page go to the association, I wouldn't be concerned. Because of the log scale (or rather because ranking uses PageRank similarly), these small changes don't make much difference.

What does make a difference is getting more and better links into the member's site.