I am not happy with situation when I have to place on the index page outbound links to many internal and external pages as they take off the index page PR. But I really have to do it, for example in Portfolio section, or to make some special offers linked from the index page, i.e. for marketing purpose mostly. Now I have about 35 outbound links from the index page and I want to drop it to 15 at least, so the left 20 I want to embed within Javascript. I am going to use this function: -------------------------------- function go(url,page) { if (url=='local') {window.location="http://mysite.com/"+page;} else {window.location="http://"+url+"/"+page;} }-------------------------------- So for outbound link to a page within the site the code will be <a href="#" onClick="javascript:go('local','pagename.html')"> and for outbound link to another site the code will be <a href="#" onClick="javascript:go('www.sitename.com','')" So in HTML code all these 20 links will look like relative links to the index page http://mysite.com/# Does anybody have experience with similar things? What Google thinks about it? Is it safely to use this method and having about 20 links with http://mysite.com/# ? Thanks.
You can also use the rel=nofollow attribute within you <A> tag to keep the search engines from counting the links. I have used both on my sites. nofollow is a lot easier if you decide to count the links in the future.
ServerUnion, thanks! So you've never got any problems with rel links with # pointed to the same page? Problems - I mean penalizing, dropping from G. index, and other unpleasant things
nofollow is the way to go. I tested it out on a couple of sites and it works very well for Google. Not sure what it would do for Yahoo and MSN though. Good Luck