Archive for August 22nd, 2006

August
22

PageRank Passthrough with JavaScript Behavior

There was a discussion last week over at Search Engine Watch regarding the links at the Washington Post and whether they pass PageRank or not. Matt Cutts and Brian White from Google both posted that these links wouldn’t pass PageRank because of the “onclick” behavior in the JavaScript.

I got curious, so I went through all the test domains and looked for a pattern, and sure enough, JavaScript onclicks do not pass PageRank, or the PageRank they do pass is so small that it is not seen. It was verified that Google does follow the links and index the pages. However, from a pure PageRank perspective, no “juice” is being passed.

So, be careful when using the onclick on your own sites.

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August
22

MSN Demotes Spam?

MSN Dude had this to say regarding the latest “update” and “spammy looking pages being removed” from the index.

No one is talking about a “total ban” here — just some recent changes that tend to demote (but not remove) “spammy-looking” pages. If your site has disappeared completely, it’s not because of any recent update of ours. There is a blacklist, of course, but that process hasn’t changed lately. If you think your site has been blacklisted, send e-mail to webspam@microsoft.com. Be sure to do a “url:” query first though — just to make sure your page really is gone.

From the testing that we can see, there hasn’t been a ban of all “spammy looking pages” so this tends to be more of a manual removal than an filter being in place. If your site has been hit, do the URL query to ensure that the page is gone. Example: url:domain.com/page.html. It works whether or not you put in the “www” or “http”.

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