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Old 05-27-2008, 12:36 PM
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Originally Posted by Gorkfu View Post
This is not always 100% true. If a link starts to looks like this at the beginning:

<a href="javascript...

Then it most likely won't get indexed.

That's why I always tell people to never use JavaScript for linking unless it is outside of the href in the <a> link tag. Using JavaScript events outside the href is much better than using JavaScript inside the href. Like this example.

<a href="http://site.com" onclick="dothis"></a>

Although a lot of time when using Ajax the links might be set up to pages that don't really need to be indexed. Mainly because those pages are used inside of other pages.

Basically to sum up... if you roll over a link and it starts with "http://" your good to go... If it starts with, "javascript:" It will most likely certainly not be indexed.
I agree 100%, and thought I had made that clear in my post (obviously not) Google will pull the url out of javascript, and add it to the 'pending' indix, but the link will not carry any link juice. If you use javascript for navigation, then you need to have the complete set of links in the noscript area.

Apologies if I didn't make myself clear enough
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