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[Why]

Hello everybody,

I enjoy to write here my first question and post.
The question is in the title.
I have some links with repetitive keywords on several pages. I want that the text of those links could not be seen by Search Engines as Google (not saved in the cached text) to avoid a high density of those on pages containing few words in the text of the page (and avoid a penalty by google). How to do? What is the best/easiest strategy?

Edited by Why, 27 September 2007 - 08:58 AM.

[MaKa]

put them in an image or make the link in javascript.

[Jill]

Change what they say.

[Why]

put them in an image or make the link in javascript.

Is it authorized to put text in an image and make a link on it?
With javascript, the anchor text will be not seen by google? sure?

Change what they say.

I had already tought to this solution but it is almost impossible since keywords of locations (as the name of a town) are/would be in links. The problematic pages contain maybe only two sentences, a big and very informative google map and my important tranversal links with some repetitions of the same word in anchor text...

[chrishirst]

Well to be pefectly honest

Trying to hide them is liable to bring down many more problems than simply leaving them, especially when your reason is something as pointless as word density.

[torka]

Is it authorized to put text in an image and make a link on it?

Of course. It's used by many, many sites for their site navigation without any problems. Naturally, without alt attribute text these graphical links won't be particularly accessible to the handicapped.

With javascript, the anchor text will be not seen by google? sure?

If the Javascript is used to write out the link, yes, we are sure. Again, those links won't be accessible to the handicapped, either. To test it, bring up your page in a text-based browser (maybe use the Yellowpipe Lynx Viewer Tool plugin in FireFox, or just install Lynx itself) or in a regular browser with JS turned off. If you don't see that text at all or you see it but not as links, then the SEs won't see them as links either.

Trying to hide them is liable to bring down many more problems than simply leaving them, especially when your reason is something as pointless as word density.

To be honest, I agree...

--Torka

[amanda123]

I think you should put them in a related image ...