Are blogroll links in blogs crawlable by Search Engines?
By arin2u | October 15, 2007
Topics: Search Engines, Tech Talks |
If I ask you
Do search engines crawl blogroll links?
What will be your answer? Probably
yes
As blogs are becoming more popular, many sites are providing utility features like the one I’ve found. Blogrolling.com gives widget to automate the linking process through javascript. The concept is when you create your profile and links there, they will provide you with a small javascript code. If you add that code in multiple blogs, all your blogs will be updated at a time with those links. It’s that simple to manage your blogrolls. 
But my friends, Be Aware!
those links are not crawlable by the search engines if you are pretty conscious about SE rankings and getting link juice out of those links. For example, visit http://wealth-and-money.blogspot.com/ and look for “More To Explore!” links at the bottom of left sidebar. Also check the code for this javascript.
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This is Arindam aka arin2u. I love blogging and I do it in simple ways. I like learning new things. SEO, internet marketing are my niche fields.
Yes, you are right. Lots of blogger do this trick. So we need to check blog links whether they are free from all those tricks or not.
I am a bit doubtful that how much valuable these blogroll links are. Specially links from blogspot or wordpress blogs. Because they are from the same IP. Although SEs treat them separately.
Biplab
“If you add that code in multiple blogs, all your blogs will be updated at a time with those links.” - It will be helpful for us to update our Blog with time-to-time but all we need to do is to be aware of the crawlable links.
Varun
Javascript is not scrollable by search engines. May be the bloggers are using it so that no one can utilize it for any promotional purpose of their site. Thanks for giving a clear concept.
Sumon
Thanks for this post now we know how much careful we need to be while we are also conscious about SE rankings and Links,because it is easy to do a mistake but difficult to mend it.
Thanks again for this WARNING!,looking forward to your next post.
“BEWARE of crawlable links”.
Thanks for making us aware.
Thanks all of you for your comment.
Biplab, to me, blogroll links are very precious as blogger is referring them. I hope visitor viewpoint it can do good. As search engine view point, it’s very difficult to say if it count those. LOA i want to say every link matter.