would this ATX toplist code help with the SEO?

[zentz]

I am creating a new ATX toplist so i was wondering is there any difference between these two codes, SEO speaking??

1. code #1

<A href="&#37;%url_001%%" title="%%tit_001%%">%%tit_001%%</A>

2. code #2

<A href="%%url_001%%" title="%%tit_001%%" onMouseDown="this.href='/cgi-bin/atx/out.cgi?id=%%tid_001%%&tag=toplist&trade=%%url_001 %%'; return false;">%%tit_001%%</A>

I heard that in case of code #2 google will count those links as they are hardlinks. What do you think? Why would you want to add hardlinks to concurent sites anyway, how does that help your rankings?

[beta-tester]

it won't count them as hardlinks, however it'll be able to index them. I am not sure you'll have any seo benefit from either of those. My recommendation is to put nofollow on any outbound link which goes through the script.

[SmokeyTheBear]

well i imagine the point would be to use a hardcoded url as the link , the onmousedown simply replaces the real url with the atx trade script url


example
href="http://www.yahoo.com" title="&#37;%tit_001%%" onMouseDown="this.href='/cgi-bin/atx/out.cgi?id=%%tid_001%%&tag=toplist&trade=%%url_001 %%'; return false;">%%tit_001%%</A>
%%clk_001%%

this would give you one backlink to yahoo , nobody but google will ever see the link to yahoo though or be able to visit the link, as soon as they click it they get sent to the trade url

either way though it would be against google's rules, not that it matters much but

even if you kept the code the way you have it for code#2 the benefit is part of the way google judges the relevence of your site is by who you link to and if they are also relevent , by using the trade script url google wont see those outbound links as anything relevent , wheras using the trade scripts real url as hardlink will, even if you are leaking some pr

[mpahlca]

Yes it does work spider the site with a robot and your welcome for using my code.

[zentz]

Originally Posted by beta-tester

it won't count them as hardlinks, however it'll be able to index them. I am not sure you'll have any seo benefit from either of those. My recommendation is to put nofollow on any outbound link which goes through the script.

if i want to include the nofollow in the 2nd code would that look like this? Or should i put the nofollow somewhere else?

<A href="%%url_001%%" title="%%tit_001%%" onMouseDown="this.href='/cgi-bin/atx/out.cgi?id=%%tid_001%%&tag=toplist&trade=%%url_001 %%'; return false;" rel="nofollow">%%tit_001%%</A>