Is there a penalty for disabling the frame in google image search

I'm interested in adding this script to my page:

<script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript">
if (top.location != self.location) top.location = self.location;
</script>

It disables the image frame google image search places when visitors click on a result and takes them directly to the actual page.

Anyone know if this is likely to be penalised by google?

Dylan

 

care to elaborate???

 

The reason for adding the script is that it prevents people navigating directly to the image and never seeing the surrounding page.

The reason I was worried is two-fold:

1. There's some suggestion that it may act as an impediment to proper indexing
2. Whether or not it will be specifically penalised by the spiders.

Dylan

 

Somewhere on this forum I have read that such kind of scripts are detected in some way by the image bots and will get your images de-indexed.

I wanted to try it as well but decided not to do it, since it takes ages for the images to be indexed again after removing the script.

But if you will add the script, Im curious what will happen!

 

That's what I'm worried about. The traffic I get from images is not all that great at the moment (i.e. people click in and out) so if no-one is certain about issues (or lack thereof) might give it a go!

Dylan

 

google ignores javascripts on pages.

so using javas script is not a punishment reason

 

i just had a bunch of images get totally de-indexed for using a javascript framebreaker on several pages... it took google less than 24 hours to kill the image search traffic to my site.

not only did google de-index the images from pages that had the framebreaker code, they also de-indexed other gallery pages that never had the code on 'em.

 

Are you sure thats factual? I've never heard of that before...

 

I used it in the past with no ill effects

 

Googlebot does not read javascript.....the proof is in adsense.....adsense is javascript and they can't read the links in it.

 

I don't think that's relevant here. Google might not index the javascript, but if someone visits the site through Google Image Search (which usually has the Google frame at the top), then the javascript on that site can still remove that frame.

 

idle speculation... you don't know what the googlebot can or cannot read.

all you know is that the google search engine is not indexing pub i.d.'s from the adsense ad block, which proves nothing.

 

"Chris said that he was prompted with a chat prompt from GoogleBot on his Live Person Timpani agent[javascript]. At first, I thought, that someone changed his user agent to GoogleBot but then he provided more details. He provided the referrer information, which showed the IP source came from Google."
http://www.seroundtable.com/archives/003492.html

 

I think there is no penalty for doing so, but you can contact Google for confirmation just to be sure.

 

There may not be any penalty but I have seen image traffic reducing heavily after putting such script. I have seen around 90% reduction in image traffic.