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I'd like to ask you one question.
See I want to have pages on my website that visitors could see, but those pages, won't have any real content, they gonna be like example images.
Now, I'm wondering, how to link to such content-lack pages, but save PR.
If I put rel=nofollow, I've read somewhere that SE's might ban me, because of that. Why would I don't want to give any importance to the pages that are on my site? So I think that SE's might figure that I don't want to give any weight to my internal pages for pagerank, and if it's so, they might ban me... I'm not sure...
Now second, I could use Javascript encoded links. but if people hve Javascript turned off, then that's it. There's no point. JS is unreliable.
Could you suggest me what other options there are? My pages are HTML, so I don't think that embeding PHP or somthing would work out... don't even think it's possible to encode links with PHP.
Could you suggest anything?
1. If you use ALT tags as you should, then the pages will have content.
2. "save PR"....sorry, but this is just silly.
Taking any action to hide anything intentionally from SE's is just asking for trouble.
Could you suggest anything?
Unless you have hundreds of these, your energies are better spent worrying about other things on your site.
OTOH, if you do have hundreds of 'em, are they granular enough and unique enough from all the others on the site? If so u could optimize them.
If not and you're really worried about PR, use the rel=nofollow, or, link to them, and the only links out from those pages would be back to linking page and other top level related pages. It's a bit iffy doing it that last way, but not too bad, and made better if you can add a wee bit of content to the image pages. I know of a site that is sturctured similarly and they've so far had no problems.
You could also put all the pages at issue in an excluded directory, which is what a lot of people do. That'd be my choice. Wouldn't worry about the PR unless the pages linking to the image pages don't have many other links out to other pages, internal or external.
