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Originally Posted by williamc
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Originally Posted by Garrett
If you're using this tactic on your site you're liable to be penalized
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There have been no documented examples of this happening anywhere that I have seen. You are stating things as fact when you have no proof to base it on. This article is completely misleading to any newbie out there who does not know better because of that. They will accept it as fact when it definately is not.
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The other reason you should continue linking is that Google also penalizes "dead end" sites or "PageRank Sinks," as Dan Thies calls them
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You just stated something else as fact, when it is not even close. It is one persons opinion only. This quote describes half the commercial websites out there, do you really think for a moment google is going to penalize them for keeping their customers on their website? Google has not done so that I have ever seen, nor would I ever expect to see them be this blind. |
While it is true that many people only scan public information and as such can be lead astray due to their own ignorance - the way I read all of this is: it's coming just not today.
Fact: Senior Software Engineer Matt Cutts has repeatly stated that Google is attempting to extend Googlebots ability to parse and understand JavaScript where at present it's only jiberish to it.
Conclusion: based on your statement a "newbie" would conclude that there are zero facts and completely through caution out the door... which IMHO is worse than scanning the above and playing it safe.