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However, I noticed that it is not recorded as a link to my client's site in any of the 3 major Search Engines and this site has been online for almost a year too. So I then checked out the page the link appears on it and looks clean (not in a frame, no rel=nofollow on the link, no meta tags with nofollow/noindex, etc.) I tried to check the robots.txt but that brings up an error page so they may have that prevented somehow.
I also clicked on the link and then checked the site meter and it records nothing. I tried it 3 times and made sure I had the option to not record my own clicks turned off and still nothing. The site meter I use records clicks immediately so something is wrong here. It is not even recording the visit as unknown.
This site is obviously preventing the clicks from being recorded. NO wonder they are the highest ranking RE site on the internet.
What other ways are there to prevent clicks from being tracked other than what I mentioned above?
Actually, perhaps your site meter isn't updated continually. It's common to update these things nightly - that might be it.
In terms of cloaking, check the refering page in Google and see if there's a 'cached' link. Check that page for your link. If the cached page is available and your link is there, I don't have a good answer. If the cached page is there and there's no link, they're cloaking (but check the code of the cached page for nofollow's and the like). If there's no cached page, that speaks volumes too.
the only other suggestion I would have is to check for javascript stuff on the referring page (also remember to look in any included files).
