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12-23-2003
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I have an web directory and want to avoid page rank leakage through outbound links... |
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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? |
HTTP location header, Google is said to follow it. If it does something
different, Google may consider it abuse.
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René Pijlman
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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 |
you really have to know what you're doing when you do this or it just
won't work or it'll ignore all links even non asp links.
Another way is to javascript certain links rather than asp'ing them
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Jeff M: I have an web directory and want to avoid page rank leakage through outbound links... Do you also want to avoid the wrath of Google? 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? I guess it depends on what go.asp does. If it redirects the client via a HTTP location header, Google is said to follow it. If it does something different, Google may consider it abuse. -- René Pijlman Wat wil jij leren? http://www.leren.nl |
The go.asp would simply be...
<%
Response.Redirect(Request.Querystring())
%>
I would expect Google to follow it, no problem. However what I am hoping for
would the "exit page" from my site to be go.asp. The page rank of go.asp
doesn't matter. That would keep my other pages from losing page rank, right?
Jeff
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The go.asp would simply be... % Response.Redirect(Request.Querystring()) % I would expect Google to follow it, no problem. However what I am hoping for would the "exit page" from my site to be go.asp. The page rank of go.asp doesn't matter. That would keep my other pages from losing page rank, right? |
http://www.MyDirectory.com/go.asp?ht...nationSite.com, Google
presumably follows the HTTP redirect and passes the pagerank on to
http://www.DestinationSite.com. If I was Google that's what I'd do. Why
not?
Maybe you can prevent this by excluding http://www.MyDirectory.com/go.asp
in robots.txt. But Google may consider this abuse, since it undermines one
of the fundaments of the algorithm(s).
'Avoid tricks intended to improve search engine rankings. A good rule of
thumb is whether you'd feel comfortable explaining what you've done to a
website that competes with you. Another useful test is to ask, "Does this
help my users? Would I do this if search engines didn't exist?"'
[...]
'Don't employ cloaking or sneaky redirects.'
http://www.google.com/webmasters/guidelines.html
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René Pijlman
Wat wil jij leren? http://www.leren.nl
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Jeff M 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 Yes you will need a robots.txt file for it to ignore all .asp links but you really have to know what you're doing when you do this or it just won't work or it'll ignore all links even non asp links. Another way is to javascript certain links rather than asp'ing them |
go.asp page.
Would this work?
=========ROBOTS.TXT==========
User-agent: *
Disallow: go.asp
Jeff
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Would this work? =========ROBOTS.TXT========== User-agent: * Disallow: go.asp |
User-agent: *
Disallow: /go.asp
"any URL that starts with this value will not be retrieved"
http://www.robotstxt.org/wc/norobots.html
The URLs in this context start with a "/" which represents the root of
your site.
But I'm not sure if this will do what you hope that it does.
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René Pijlman
Wat wil jij leren? http://www.leren.nl
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Jeff M: The go.asp would simply be... % Response.Redirect(Request.Querystring()) % I would expect Google to follow it, no problem. However what I am hoping for would the "exit page" from my site to be go.asp. The page rank of go.asp doesn't matter. That would keep my other pages from losing page rank, right? I'm not sure, but I'd say you direct pagerank to http://www.MyDirectory.com/go.asp?ht...nationSite.com, Google presumably follows the HTTP redirect and passes the pagerank on to http://www.DestinationSite.com. If I was Google that's what I'd do. Why not? Maybe you can prevent this by excluding http://www.MyDirectory.com/go.asp in robots.txt. But Google may consider this abuse, since it undermines one of the fundaments of the algorithm(s). 'Avoid tricks intended to improve search engine rankings. A good rule of thumb is whether you'd feel comfortable explaining what you've done to a website that competes with you. Another useful test is to ask, "Does this help my users? Would I do this if search engines didn't exist?"' [...] 'Don't employ cloaking or sneaky redirects.' http://www.google.com/webmasters/guidelines.html -- René Pijlman Wat wil jij leren? http://www.leren.nl |
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But Google may consider this abuse, since it undermines one of the fundaments of the algorithm(s). |
robots.txt file. Is that really considered abuse?
I am not trying to "beat the system" here, I just want to "protect myself".
I have a large (thousands of links) web directory, and I read somewhere that
if you link to a site that Google has penalized then the linking site (me)
will be penalized. With the size of my directory I could have dozens of
penalized sites. In which case it wouldn't matter if go.asp is hurt by
linking to penalized sites.
Any suggestions?
Jeff
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If every outbound link goes to go.asp and I disallow go.asp in the robots.txt file. Is that really considered abuse? |
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I am not trying to "beat the system" here |
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I just want to "protect myself". I have a large (thousands of links) web directory |
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and I read somewhere that if you link to a site that Google has penalized then the linking site (me) will be penalized. |
'avoid links to web spammers or "bad neighborhoods" on the web as your own
ranking may be affected adversely by those links.'
http://www.google.com/webmasters/guidelines.html
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Any suggestions? |
neighborhoods" :-)
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René Pijlman
Wat wil jij leren? http://www.leren.nl
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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 |
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