Does target=”_blank” prevent Google from counting a link or not? There's only one way to find out – set up some new web sites and vary the links in.
For this I'm going to set up 3 new (but similar) travel blogs. None will link to each other. I'll post articles from the same source into each one at the same time each day and will allow pings to be sent to search engines. Then I'll watch what happens to the blogs.
The first blog will not have any inbound links to it – this one will be relying totally on pings to get the search engine's interest. This, in scientific / mathematical speak, is the control. Without any links, what happens?
The second blog will have links from a variety of pages, mainly on travel sites. I'll pick a cross section of pages from sites. Some will be those shown as listing to my own web design site, others won't be shown. All will be PR2 or above and most importantly none of the links will include target=”_blank”.
The third blog will have links from the same sources as the second and the links will be in the same area of the page. Sometimes the link will be above the second link, sometimes below. But this one’s links will use target=”_blank” on every link.
I'll talk about the expected results tomorrow.
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