For the past week, I have been reading on SEO and applying what I can to my hobby website. In my quest to increase anchors text in links and to get those links on other sites, I have looked at doing some sort of Reciprocal Links Exchange. Also, I have also thought about a text banner exchange. The tool I use right now to figure out how the search engines see a page is google poodle diagnostic view and source code view. When I place a text link on a page using: <script language="JavaScript" src="http://www.domain.com/library/bannerrotation.js"></script> Code (markup): I get my text anchor link to display on the webpage but it does not appear in diagnostic view and only the java script code appears (not the text links) in source code view. Does google see the information in text based banner ads that are called in scripts? Is any dynamically generated (client side) content viewable by the robots? Thanks, JohnV
I wouldn't rely on client side scripting to be read by the bots - although Google is looking at it. The problem with tracking engines via links is that a bot will store the link at get back to it when it can - so the date it checks that link will differ (greatly) from the date it viewed your page. The only reliable way to track them is serverside, either through your logs or mechanisms like botspotter. Even then the tricks that some bots play to avoid detection are numerous - take thumbnails.org who pretend to be a browser. Sarah