redirecting outbound links

[perfectlover]

Hello
Will i be banned from google using redirect script for outbound links like this

href="http://www.yoursite.org/cgi-bin/redirect.cgi?http://www.anothersite.org"

(302 redirect). I would like to do this to count clicks.
Thanks

[specter]

Yeah,sure!

[sherwoodseo]

This will not get you banned. Many sites use this form of tracking for outbound, off-to-another-website linking.

There's only one SEO implication I'm aware of: if you were intending that outbound link from yoursite.org to benefit the link scoring of anothrsite.org, then that won't happen through the redirect. You need a direct link for that to work.

[specter]

I would confirm that ANY redirecting command is always treated as potential spam:

I wouldn't risk.

[Span]

Maybe changing your link to:

<a href="http://www.anothersite.org" onclick="window.location='http://www.yoursite.org/cgi-bin/redirect.cgi?http://www.anothersite.org';return false;">

Robots and UAs with JS disabled will follow the first 'clean' part of the link, users with JS enabled will follow the second part.

This way you'll track only humans (except for the % with JS disabled).