Google PageRank Outbound Links

On Tue, 23 Dec 2003 22:59:44 GMT, "Jeff M" <Jeff (AT) VirtualOrlando (DOT) com>
wrote:

I have an web directory and want to avoid page rank leakage through outbound
links...

Is it enough to have a go.asp page and redo all the outbound links formatted
as...

http://www.MyDirectory.com/go.asp?ht...nationSite.com

Will this work, or will Google still recognize this as an outbound link?

Do I need to have something in the robots.txt file to tell Google to avoid
go.asp? Is it necessary?

Jeff

Hi,

The suggestions so far won't protect PR. If Google can read the links
it may consider them in the PR calculation even if you exclude
indexing the go.asp page or following certain links (which I don't
think is possible). So if you have 90 of your go.asp links on a page
and 10 to your own pages you may be wasting 90% of your PR from that
page.

Google considers these as separate pages-

go.asp?1
go.asp?2
go.asp?3
go.asp?4

And so if you link this way that's multiple links off the page, even
though it's just the one page really.

I've found javascripting the individual links that you don't want to
send PR to works, though a percentage of your visitors won't see them.

Also Google won't count any text (the anchor text) within the
javascripted links for the page they are on. Basically to Google it
will be like the links don't exist.

I find document write works well for this contained within a
<script></script>

I have a medium size site that has hundreds of these type of links to
affiliate pages and none are indexed.

David
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