Is it wise to exclude a page of your own ?

[Percept]

Is it wise to exclude pages from your own site with js links so no PR leaks to it ? I'm talking about my "info" page at http://percept.be , it has no use except inform my visitors who I am. The page has one link on it and that link is to my homepage.

[mobilebadboy]

From what I've read, Google is experimenting with reading javascript (don't quote me, but I'm almost positive I've read that), so in the long run that may not work for you. But I don't believe it could hurt you (again don't quote me). You could always stick a robots.txt file in your root folder with:

User-agent: *
Disallow: /info/

That blocks (or it's supposed to) all spiders, at least the major ones that matter should recognize it. Or for just Google:

User-agent: Googlebot
Disallow: /info/

Whichever way works for you best.

edit: You could also include the following in your HEAD tags:

<meta name="Robots" content="noindex,nofollow" />

[incka]

No point. Linking doesn't loose PR, it gives the PR evenly to the pages, and if the page any links back to your homepage and nowhere else you won't loose any...

[Percept]

Alright, I guess I can remove the JS link then.

[chromate]

In fact, contrary to losing PR, you can actually focus more PR on your homepage by linking back to it in this way.

[incka]

Yes, chromate is right, read the algrothorum article Chris posted.

[Chris]

You lose the dampening factor * the amount of PR you send it actually.

You gain 1-the dampening factor for having the page.

So you could lose PR.

I block Google from plenty of pages. Author contact pages for instance, memberlists here. etc.

[chromate]

What I meant was, by linking to the info page from the home page, less PR will be sent through the rest of the site (the other links from the home page). So the focus of PR would be on the home page and it would be slightly greater than if that fraction of PR was spread through a series of sub pages.