link with onclick="javascript consider dofollow link?

Discussion in 'Search Engine Optimization' started by calvynlee, May 8, 2011.

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    hi Guys,

    Some time I check on the link provided in article directory, and found the link is in such way:

    a href="http://example.com" onclick="javascript:_gaq.push(['_trackEvent','outbound-article','printablecoupon']);"

    Is this kind of link consider a dofollow link? Does SE able to crawl it?
     
    calvynlee, May 8, 2011 IP
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    The link is"http://example.com", and it is dofollow. The javascript section is an event handler, nothing to do with crawling. It probably stores in a database the link that was clicked, possibly also opens a pop-up window offering a coupon or something similar.

    This is the kind of code linking that gives me horrible headaches when I localize websites - touch the code, and the whole site collapses if you're not careful. Don't touch it and the user in the new translated site gets a lot of advertising in a language that he does not understand. But then, that's exactly the reason why I'm not cheap... ;)
     
    SEOTranslator, May 8, 2011 IP