steveb - 2:05 am on Jan 12, 2003 (gmt 0)

I'm saying cgi and adserver links pass on PR, even if they don't show.

I'm saying the backlinks shown via the toolbar may only be a very small fraction of the backlinks being actually counted by Google.

I'm saying looking at the backlinks for some particular types of sites is completely useless in analyzing that site.

I'm saying that if you are a site that offers cgi advertising type links to some sort of business entity that you should include in what you charge them some calculation for PR that you are giving them.

And finally, I'm saying that all the concerns people have about getting links to them via cgi "masked" redirects should not concern people at all, because even if you don't see the links listed as backlinks they are still being counted by Google.