RE: [backstage] Inline hypertext links - you're doing it wrong!

[John O'Donovan]

So this is an editorial trial rather than a technical one so best not to get 
too concerned with how it is implemented.
 
Feedback on what people think about inline links in general is very useful to 
see where we go with this.
 
Cheers,
 
jod

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Brian Butterworth
Sent: Tue 8/19/2008 16:36
To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk
Subject: Re: [backstage] Inline hypertext links - you're doing it wrong!


There's a real problem for search engines doing the "wrong" way.  Most search 
engines take the non-Javascript version of a page and index that.  If there's 
normal inline hypertext links in the content, Google (for example) will use 
this as part of the page "popularity" ratings.  

If they are done the Javascript way, they won't count towards search engine 
rankings.

Whilst I am all for the BBC using the License Fee to dominate the UK Media, it 
would actually be handy for it to link to other people's content as a matter of 
course, and for these links to count both as direct clicks and as 
search-engine-ranking helpers.

As I thought that the whole point of the recent review was to link to other 
media sites for both purposes, this awful Javascript nonsense is not going to 
help with either.


2008/8/19 Phil Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>


                I actually like the idea that they are using javascript to 
insert the links into the page, as it means with noscript it is possible to 
block apture.com <http://apture.com/>  and then all the links disappear.
                


        If you click one of the links and open a popup window and click 
"Feedback" you can disable the multimedia (i.e. popup) view which then inserts 
plain <a href=""> links on the page instead (I assume this is also inserted via 
JS).
        
        This is a much better option since it a) does what I expect and b) 
maintains link accessibility. It might be nice if this was the default rather 
than the popup window.
        
        Cheers,
        
        Phil Wilson, happy HackHUD user
        http://dharmafly.com/projects/hackhud 

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