Will I Get Penalised For JavaScript Links?

Hi

I'm looking for a way to change all the links in my footer of my website (coded in HTML) all in one go (if that makes sense) so I was thinking about doing something like this:

<script type="text/javascript" src="footer.js"></script>

and then in the footer.js file:

document.write('LINKS HERE');

Would the links get penalised for this by SEs because I thought I had read somewhere they couldn't read JavaScript very well? I want the links to follow because they're linked to other sites in my network.

Any information would be helpful

Thanks, Will

 

I believe Google will just skip the javascript with the links like it waas never there.

 

well in that case i would use <div> and chage that with javascript
something like
<code>
document.getElementById('divname').innerHTML = "new link"
</code>

 

Ooh, do people think that would work? ^