SEO effects of random link display plugins

Discussion in 'Google' started by ramccluskey, Oct 9, 2010.

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    I have several Wordpress blogs. I am acquainted with plug-ins, like Better Blogroll, that allow you to display random links by category from your links lists. I am thinking about using this idea to provide links from my blogs to my other sites. However, I want to avoid reciprocal linking. These thoughts made me realize that I don't know how Google decides what links to follow from a WordPress blog.

    If I have 20 links in a category, but I only display five of them, at random, each time I "display" a page, how does Google determine which of those links get the link juice when the page is crawled? Does the spider actually display an instance of the page, then cache it, then crawl only the displayed links? Does it have some way of seeing all of the 20 links that comprise the actual category? Thanks!
     
    ramccluskey, Oct 9, 2010 IP
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    it will give backlinks, but may "delelte" when robots next visit. I don't like random display, I like display by a random feed, the random feed can from the current uri etc. It's better, to random link all pages in the site, but the backlink won't disappear next claw
     
    DoDo Me, Oct 9, 2010 IP