Hello all, I run a credit card site, naturally there are alot of outgoing links to applications for the credit cards. Ive heard that many outgoing links can hurt PageRank and affects SERPs. Would putting nofollow tags on the outgoing links to the applications help in reducing the affect of all the outgoing links?
The fact that outgoing links hurt your PR is a myth. However a lot of affiliate links to credit card sites will pretty much guarantee you will never rank in Google. The only way round this is some intelligent cloaking or removing some of your links.
there is a myth of PR bleeding, when you lose PR due to too many outgoing links. There is a good tool that helps you analyzing your webpages, its a plugin in firefox called Search Status 1.18 - The creator of the plugin recons that there should be links on your site as well as secure and nofollow links.
mad4, I am using a system like this: On a page for Credit Cards for Bad Credit I have all of those cards and each card has an apply link, the apply link is simply a link to a PHP file with the card ID at the end which is then passed to the PHP file and the URL for the application is pulled from the DB and does a php Header redirect. Would using Javascript to redirect be better since Google and other SEs couldnt read the javascript?
"Google couldnt read the javascript"... where you got this from? You are wrong. Google checks all javascripts from your page in search for links.
Ive read and heard that Google has trouble crawling javascript, flash, etc. Would google be able to find the url in a javascript window.location function?
The system you are using is good but you will need to block access to the script with robots.txt and maybe (if you want to take a risk) cloak the links so google can't follow them. Whether you do this will depend how good your site is. Thin affiliate sites will struggle unless they cloak links but if your site is full of good content you don't need to cloak.
LOL, are you joking or what? Try the following test to see that google is checking links from javascript: Place in your site a page . call it.. lets say "samplepage.html" that has no link from your site. Place a javascript in your main site like this. <script> var samplelink="http://samplepage.html" </script> Now wait for google to crawl your main page. He WILL allso read the javascript and detect the samplepage.html and crawl it too. Done?
RSS in Javascript format is readily available from most RSS Publishers but what they do not tell you is that Javascript is not search engine friendly. What that means is search engines do not read Javascript. Any thing placed on your web pages in javascript format will not be read by the indexing search engines. That is why we offer our feeds in PHP. PHP is a search engine friendly scripting language. Adding RSS feeds to your web pages with PHP will provide fresh content for the search engines to pick up and rank you for. This is the source: http://rssfeedreader.com/php.html Rod