Does anyone know how to stop google from following a javascript link? On every page of one of my sites, I have this: <script type="text/javascript" src="hxxp://support.4intrepid.com/inventory/instant_check.php?code=AV-S861"></script> If you google this page: hxxp://www.google.com/search?q=support.4intrepid.com/inventory/instant_check.php&hl=en&filter=0 I currently get 67 pages indexed (each of them just has a ton of content too ). This link appears nowhere else on my sites or anyone else's sites. Its only a few weeks old, in fact. Anyone have a clue as to how to make google stop following those links? It seems absurd that google would index these things. And, As a followup; does anyone think that google would penalize me for having this "outbound link" on every page of the site?
It can and does. This whole thread proves it does. Whether google weights them is an entirely different matter. And you are kidding me, right? hxxp = http - I don't need the links spidered from here.
I understand that and the solution is fine, except: I have a yahoo store; so the domain that hosts the javascript is: www.onlinediscountmart.com and the javascript call goes to support.4intrepid.com (my mail/server/etc). That's the problem. Excluding via robots.txt is easy and an option, but it doesn't mitigate the outbound "link" on each item page. And that's my main concern.