Brian Cryer wrote:
> "Ed Jay" <edMbj@aes-intl.com> wrote in message
> news:42mgd3100t680t7pgq54jp1806cuq7pvmg@4ax.com...
>> 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.

There is no such thing as a "perl link" on a web page. Perl may
generate the link - but it's straight html code, and no one can tell
from the client side whether the link was generated statically, with
Perl, PHP, ASP or one of the 1,000,000 parrots pecking on keyboards.

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