"Ed Jay" <edMbj@aes-intl.com> wrote in message
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> I'm made to understand that if a site has outgoing links, but few or no
> reciprocal or incoming links, the site is penalized in terms of Google
> page
> rankings. This presents a problem, as I need to link to several outside
> sources as references, with no chance of obtaining reciprocal links.

I think what you are referring to is known as "page rank leakage". The
equation for calculating page rank results in a lower page rank the more
outgoing links a page has. If you google for it you should find a number of
pages discussing it.

> I note that Google spiders the HTML documents on my site, but doesn't
> spider
> any of the Perl-generated pages. All of the reference-related links will
> be
> on a single document.
>
> Does it make sense to generate the external links page with Perl? Will I
> avoid penalty doing it this way?

A much simpler way would be to include rel="nofollow" on each of your links.
That way google won't follow it.

Generating the links using perl might be just as good, but I'm sure its only
a matter of time before google follow perl links (if indeed they don't
already).

For what its worth, for link exchanges I don't exchange links with sites
which use perl, nofollow or scripts for their links.

Hope this s.
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Brian cryer
www.cryer.co.uk/brian