Question about incoming links and PR

[asantos]

Hi, i have two questions:

1) if someone calls a banner from MY domain through a javascript call like this one, will i still increase my domain's PageRank?

2) does <area shape href=""> also work as <a href=""> for pagerank purposes?

This is the script i was talking about in point 1:

document.write('<style><!-- @import url(http://blablabla.com/banner/style.css); --></style>'
+ '<div id="mybanner"><img src="http://blablabla.com/banner/me.gif" width="163" height="163" border="0" usemap="#mybanner"></div>'
+ '<map name="mybanner"><area shape="poly" coords="200,0,0,200,0,100,100,0" href="http://blablabla.com"></map>'
);

Thanks for your advice.

[jonrichd]

My guess is that your Javascript link will be ignored by search spiders, and therefore will not give you any link juice. If instead of using document.write to get your code into the other site you simply had your banner and link in the normal document flow, I believe it would.

I also think that spiders follow area href= links, and that they would pass PR. However, keep in mind that a graphic links isn't going to be as useful as a text link, and that in today's world, PageRank isn't the end-all be-all it used to be. The link anchor and authority of the linking site have more of an effect.

[Dragoasl]

I have expirience with one of my sites - I have picture thumbnails which when clicked a javascript with the bigger picture pop-ups.

Google do not index this pictures, although Yahoo index them.. so.. yahoo index javasctript links

[asantos]

then how could i actually print the banner WITHOUT javascript by calling an external file?