Re: What Search Engine Bots can see

No the search engines don't follow javascript links. The follow only
HTML links.



On Feb 6, 6:10 pm, Harcourt Mudd <askme.if.you.need... (AT) example (DOT) com>
wrote:

Do search engine bots follow or index links that are shown on a website
with blogrolling scripts like this one?

script language="javascript" type="text/javascript"
src="http://rpc.blogrolling.com/display.php?r=
05f34894330abab8e32e0636d3bb041f"></script

I need to show certain gambling and paid to blog links but I don't want to
take a penalty from google for doing so. I would put rel="nofollow" on
them but that isn't allowed in this situation.

I just want to show links that people can see and click, but that SE's
won't follow, index or even see.

will that work? What about an iframe?

On Fri, 8 Feb 2008 08:06:32 -0800 (PST), johndancing (AT) gmail (DOT) com wrote:

No the search engines don't follow javascript links. The follow only
HTML links.

Bad top-posty boy, and wrong too. A basic javascript link can't be
executed by the engines, they can't click on it, for instance. If it's
got the a href bit in there though they should probably be able to
follow it ok.

BB
--

http://www.kruse.co.uk/
http://www.fat-odin.com/
http://www.here-be-posters.co.uk/

On Fri, 08 Feb 2008 22:35:57 -0600, Harcourt Mudd
<askme.if.you.need.it (AT) example (DOT) com> wrote:

Big Bill <bill (AT) kruse (DOT) co.uk> wrote in
news:ak6pq3978jna4qv4i8gb7c438vu7crieoc (AT) 4ax (DOT) com:

On Fri, 8 Feb 2008 08:06:32 -0800 (PST), johndancing (AT) gmail (DOT) com wrote:

No the search engines don't follow javascript links. The follow only
HTML links.

Bad top-posty boy, and wrong too. A basic javascript link can't be
executed by the engines, they can't click on it, for instance. If it's
got the a href bit in there though they should probably be able to
follow it ok.

BB

ok, so links contained in a blogroll like this will not be crawled or
indexed.

script language="javascript" type="text/javascript"
src="http://rpc.blogrolling.com/display.php?r=
05f34894330abab8e32e0636d3bb041f"></script

thanks

From looking at it I'd say not but because everything is volatile in
this shifting world we do business in I'd check it with a few
spider-sims.

BB
--

http://www.kruse.co.uk/
http://www.fat-odin.com/
http://www.here-be-posters.co.uk/