petehall - 11:22 am on Oct 1, 2004 (gmt 0)

LOL

I don't want to appear premature, however I am starting to see a slight positive improvement from removing the tracking URL.

All of our pages are now dated the 29th with the changes in place and I see an increase in SERPs!

Now to visit a site you need to navigate:
Home Page > Category Page > Company Page > Visit Site

So rather than having 30+ tracking links on the Category Page you are now forced to click to the Company Page to visit the site.

Note I have not added any new pages, just made visiting sites a further step away than usual.

Now someone will tell me this increase can be seen across the board, and my amendments are not the reason for the improvement :-)