Links with? and ID usefull?

http://www.mysite.com/CLinks.asp?CountryID=9

[silverbytes]

Does that kind of link contribute to anything?
www.mysite.com/CLinks.asp?CountryID=9

Is that the same that a plain html link to your site?

[edited by: martinibuster at 1:01 pm (utc) on June 26, 2004]

[robbo]

I'd be really interested in finding this out.At present I have a links page with ID like your example above.I've had a couple of people refusing the link because of this and am considering doing a new links page html.
Thanks Robbo

[silverbytes]

No link partners like it but I'd like to see what is bad about it if someone knows..

[robbo]

hi Silverbytes,
just been sifting through some old threads.Check out
"Meta refresh leads to replacement of the target URL" POSTED 18/03 - [webmasterworld.com...] The problems are all listed there.Must admit I am just working my way through it trying to understand.
As I understand it- basically with a re-direct one of the problems is that you can effectively get your site hijacked if the link comes from a higher PR site.
They can simply log how many click throughs you are getting from SE as you are often placed highly for the term through their re-direct link.Once the numbers are up then voila ,they stop the re-direct and either get all the traffic to their site,or sell the link to a competitor.
That's how I read it anyway and am very concerned as my site may become another victim!
I have a new site and one of my linking partners is a directory.I am just starting to get found on search engines,but it is through the link on this directory (type in my key words and my company comes up,but it is through the re-directed link from this other company)-at first I thought this was good as at least I was starting to get found,but now I can see that ultimately they could really hurt my site.I could spend all my time building up the site and then they could just switch the traffic to themselves.
Even when I check www.mydomain.com on Google my homepage has been replaced by this directory company with their URL.
If I simply get them to remove my site from their links will it remedy the situation.

New to this,so would really appreciate ANY advice.
Thank you Robbo

[goodroi]

The search engines (especially Yahoo) have been following those links and valuing them more and more. The real question is do these links carry the same value as a link without the special characters?

[silverbytes]

Well 2 votes to quit those links
1 vote to keep

What else? Other opinions?

[dirkz]

> No link partners like it but I'd like to see what is bad about it if someone knows..

One bad thing is that it will probably take more time for the link being recognized.

You could avoid that with?url= and providing the real URL.

[robbo]

It seems clear to me.
At the moment if you are not careful you can loose all your PR,Links etc.etc

Do you want to risk it?

I'm only new to the game,but it seems obvious to me..........KEEP AWAY FROM ANY REDIRECTING URL LINKS.(at the moment)
I'm lucky my new site was taken away because I linked to a site like this,but it's early days for me on the internet I haven't invested as much of my time on this as you guys.
At the moment,due to the way things are set up at google,yahoo etc you could loose all your hard work etc,etc
and what can you do about it........it seems to me nothing!
OK my site is new- easy to get swallowed up.I did nothing wrong ,but I feel for the guys who have a site they have worked on and suddenly,due to a redirecting link that seemed OK at the time they loose their main page and all their links that they have worked so hard to get.
Sorry for ranting,but I suggest all of you be very careful until we have evidence that this has changed.
Robbo

[badtzmaru]

I have this theory that each redirection leaks PR as if the link was to a page that had only one outgoing link on it.

It also seems like some of the engines count an url with url parameters as a different url from the unparameterized url. I also find that this seems to change a couple of times a year as to how each engine handles it.

I get the impression that the handling of redirections and url parameters by the major engines is something that stays semi-broken. They try to fix one part of it and break the other part and it just seems to perpetually cycle between 3 or 4 marginally operational states.