Serpent
msg:3587544 | 10:05 pm on Feb 28, 2008 (gmt 0) |
Pagerank won't flow through a link with a tracking code attached to it if it is part of the URI. example.com/example.html is not the same as example.com/example.html?trackingid=5034 Hope that helps!
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ZydoSEO
msg:3587806 | 5:41 am on Feb 29, 2008 (gmt 0) |
Serpent is correct. The search engines will see each unique URL as a different page. So if you have 5 partners that link to you each with different tracking ids and one partner that doesn't include a trackingid as in: www.example.com?trackingid=1
www.example.com?trackingid=2
www.example.com?trackingid=3
www.example.com?trackingid=4
www.example.com?trackingid=5
www.example.com Then the SEs will see those as 6 pages each w/ 1 link, not 1 page w/ 6 links.
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Achernar
msg:3587982 | 1:45 pm on Feb 29, 2008 (gmt 0) |
The solution is to redirect urls with a tracking id and remove the id.
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Goldilox
msg:3588016 | 2:31 pm on Feb 29, 2008 (gmt 0) |
Thanks guys - replies really useful, just confirmed my suspicions.
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Lord Majestic
msg:3588028 | 2:59 pm on Feb 29, 2008 (gmt 0) |
Why won't you use referer to determine where click comes from and maybe save it as a cookie so that all later transactions done will be clearly links to the site from which originally that visitor came from? In this case the link can be exactly the same without any build-in tracking.
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