Randomly Generated Links & Passing PageRank

[NickPateman81]

Hi all,

If you were to have links that were randomly generated on each refresh, how would they be treated?

I would imagine that they are treated normally and isolated to each crawl. So Google would just see the link structure changing from crawl to crawl and therefore give no long term value to these links. Any ideas?

Thanks for your responses!

Nick

[jmsobe]

Yes, I think you are right. I don't believe Google would apply any relevance to the links if they are changing on each page load. The end result may be that the links would generate the appearance of cloaked links.

If its a dynamic site you are better of creating slightly differerent anchor tags and write some code to display each set based on page type. That way there is some method to the madness.

[Dan-Petrovic]

Correct. Each time page gets re-indexed pagerank flow will be recalculated.