Does Dynamic Search Results Give out PR Juice?

[thecleaner]

Im placing links to affiliate sites within my dynamic search results on my website. Do I need to do a rel="nofollow"> on these or is it necessary?

[jtara]

Define "dynamic search results".

[phranque]

you also need to understand if, how and why your dynamic search results pages are being spidered.

[thecleaner]

search.php?keyword=example&Submit=Search

[thecleaner]

does that answer the question?

[jtara]

So, you have some search script on your site, and links to affiliate sites might be found within the results?

It would seem to me that it's irrelevant whether the links are found in "dynamic search results", static pages, etc.

What matters is whether it is appropriate to link to affiliate sites. I don't think the result would be any different depending on what part of your site they are on or whether the pages are dynamically-generated or not.

(The crawler doesn't know. The parameters are a CLUE that it MIGHT be a dynamically-generated page. But a page with parameters COULD be static, and a page with no parameters COULD be dynamic.)

[phranque]

search.php?keyword=example&Submit=Search

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does that answer the question?

a spider can't submit a form.
it either has to follow a link from a site it has indexed or a link it found in your sitemap.xml.

besides the issues raised by others about your outbound links, you should think about the possibilities of duplicate content issues if you start making search results indexable, which also affects your PR.

[walkman]

I think is the results page url, so yeah if they are linked on your site. I.e. i you link to the search from the side menus.