Links Stored in DB

[ned911]

For ease of management and counting clicks I store links to external sites in a database. Will this affect my PR?

If you mouse over the anchor text you see

domain.com/prog.php?id=1

I do use relevant anchor text.

Ned

[shrirch]

You can exclude prog.php from the crawl and the robots will not follow the link.

[ned911]

Since these are links to external site will I still get linking credit in regards to the search engine? I think the answer is no.

domain.com is my domain

prog.php simple increments a counter and redirects to the destination.

[dirkz]

> Since these are links to external site will I still get linking credit in regards to the search engine?

If prog.php does a 'proper' redirect they could be counted (finally). But if you want to make sure get rid of the redirect and use some JavaScript tracking.

[shrirch]

>> If prog.php does a 'proper' redirect they could be counted

Not if prog.php is excluded using robots.txt. Anyways, I've forgotten what the original question was ... :)