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October 17, 2006

Links Within NOSCRIPT Tag Do Not Pass PageRank in Google?

According to Brett Tabke in this thread, links within the NOSCRIPT tag are not counted by Google in terms of passing PageRank.

Brett adds that "Google flips on/off support for noscript indexing from time to time," meaning Google may not even index the contents within the NOSCRIPT area.

He says Google will follow the links but not assign any value to those links.

Forum discussion at WebmasterWorld.

This entry was written the night before and scheduled to go live at the time below.



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So why does statcounter have pr10? a lot of its links are (i think - note: i have not confirmed this) are within links... *confused*

 

Posted by Ashley at October 19, 2006 17:48

I am sorry but Brett is wrong here. I know quite many examples of sites getting PR 6-10 almost only with noscript links AND high SERPs as well. I would not like it be that way but it has not been changed yet.

 

Posted by Jim Westergren at October 19, 2006 22:09

I always believed this to be the case. i believe its correct they should be treated as noindex, follow.

 

Posted by cvos at October 20, 2006 13:09

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