Hi, I wondering if this (target _blank alternative) Ex: <a href="http://www.site.com" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href);return false;">site</a> Code (markup): will affect seo, search results or google crawling ect... Thanks
This javascript target _blank alternative is XHTML 1.0 Strict! and is useful for blogrolls or link exchanges but will be crawled by Spiders? like google, bing, yahoo?
yeah target="_blank" is more seo friendly than using javascript. why? because SE love short and simple code. more complex code more time to crawl. mean more time bot requires to understand the code. well the difference might be in nano nanoseconds but there is difference is simplicity and and complexity for SE bots. once at my blog I was using a simple blog theme . my ranking was very high at google. dont know what happened. I design a theme for beauty using alots of javascript and jquery effects and in two month my site lost from SE. it was a disaster for me. then I analyzed and restored the old theme back. and again my blog what that deserved for conclusion: when it comes to SEO simplicity of code does matter. even when you use firebug you will witness that google even dont like decedent css tags (even though I think that is exaggeration in simplicity standard of google)
I have never heard of the target attribute affecting search engine rankings. I have used it without any discernible affect, so I personally would not worry about it.