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    • STDCarriers
      STDCarriers last edited by

      While trying to diagnose a recent Google penalty I found out that links were being parsed by Google even though they were made using jQuery. I had the linkify plugin on my site and configured it to convert URLs to links on all of my pages. Today I found links to other sites of mine from sites that should not have been linking to them and found that the links came from pages whose links were generated via jQuery.

      This makes me wonder, how do I know if Google is counting javascript generated links? Is it possible that my native ad widgets are creating links that Google might count?

      Since I don't own any of the sites that advertise via the widgets I don't know how to tell if they are getting link juice or not. It used to be that Google didn't parse javascript, so you could add as many links to your site via javascript as you wanted without being seen by Google as linking to those sites.

      Does anyone know of a jQuery plugin that does turn URLs into clickable links that Google won't parse as real links?

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      • STDCarriers
        STDCarriers last edited by

        This is a sample of how the ad code is rendered by the javascript from the ad network. My concern is that Google might consider these do follow links.


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        New Comfy Mattresses Might Shock You - Find Offers Online www.optiads.org

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