Brian Cryer wrote:
> "Jerry Stuckle" <jstucklex@attglobal.net> wrote in message
> news:R72dnTtJFO7zckTbnZ2dnUVZ_r3inZ2d@comcast.com. ..
>> Brian Cryer wrote:
> <snip>
>>> For what its worth, for link exchanges I don't exchange links with sites
>>> which use perl, nofollow or scripts for their links.
>> 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.
>
> Quite true.
>
> What I meant, and what I think the OP was referring to is that pages that
> are generated using perl typically seem to have a zero PR. Whether a 0 PR
> means that Google isn't following the link I simply don't know. For example
> while example.com (if generated using perl) might have a PR of say 5,
> example.com/foo.pl?i=3 typically has a PR of 0. (This may not be restricted
> to perl.) More than happy to be shown that I'm wrong on this - my feeling is
> that I should be wrong about it.
>
> I suppose in the context of the OP thread, a link generated using a perl
> script if it were simply generating html wouldn't in any way be
> distinguishable from a normal link. So, in the context of the thread you are
> 100% correct. Good point.

That's the only kind of link Perl (or any other language) CAN generate.

Perl and the others don't run on the client - they run on the server.
The server communicates with the client via html. The ONLY type of link
the server can send is an HTML link. And the client cannot tell whether
the link was generated by html, perl or whatever.

Of course, this is ignoring special purpose stuff like SOAP, java
applets, etc. - which don't necessarily use html for communications.

Whether a page has PR 0 or PR 10 has nothing to do with how it's
generated. It has everything to do with its content. And if you take a
Perl (or any other language) generated page, save the generated html to
a file and serve that (now static) file, the PR will be exactly the
same. Because Google and others will see exactly the same page as if it
were generated dynamically.

As for using GET parameters - that has nothing to do with Perl or any
other language. And there is some debate on this. The opinion by some
is using "id" as an identifier and Google won't spider your page. But
I've got at least one site which uses parms like
http://www.example.com/somepage.asp?id=400 (relics from a previous
webmaster) that has a lot of those pages, and Google spiders them quite
well. And the pages are typically PR 4 with a few PR 5.

Plus, most blogs, CMS's, etc. would have PR0 if this were the case. And
that is definitely NOT the case.

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