Does JavaScript that displays links to content on my site will be recognized by search engines for link popularity purpose? Naturally, I am mostly interested in the larger search engines: Google, Yahoo and MSN.
AFAIK, search engines will not execute JavaScript when they index your page. So if the JS outputs content.. it is not seen.
What if the URL included within the JavaScript code itself. The SE does not need to parse the code but just read it as is. For some reason I think this should work. It seems to me that most ad network has high link popularity, although they are using JavaScript code on the network. They get the credit instead of the sites they are advertising.