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Re:Patrick McKenzie (patio11) interviewed for an hour on SEO... by euroclydon on Tuesday April 06, 2010 @11:48AM (#1244853)
Thank you Patrick for the explanation. I'm trying to think of the ways in which a widget can create a link on a site where it's installed. I'm thinking:

1) Javascript, buy making a GET back to the widget server, and then inserting the link into the DOM of the widget host page.

2) Iframe.

3) Flash or something like that.

What am I missing? Can't Google easily ignore a part of a page that's generated by Javascript (their bot doesn't process it anyhow, right), and also ignore Iframes or Flash?

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Re:Patrick McKenzie (patio11) interviewed for an hour on SEO... by patio11 on Tuesday April 06, 2010 @11:58AM (#1244887)
Copy this magic spell to put my widget in your page:

<iframe ... > <a href = http://www.example.com >Anchor Text Here</a>

Empirically, most people do not strip the link.

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Re:Patrick McKenzie (patio11) interviewed for an hour on SEO... by jacquesm on Tuesday April 06, 2010 @12:41PM (#1244999)
You can add my 'empirical' confirmation of your datapoint. We did the same thing with a webcam-in-a-frame using the webcam component, the link was left in-tact in almost all cases.
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