Putting an affiliate link on a meta refresh page?

Is this still ok?

[web_seeker]

Is this still Ok? (taken from an old thread)

"On my page if I link to an affiliate link it is usually long and gives no indication of the site. Example a cj link or shaleasale link.

If I do this is it ok with google or will it hurt?

Lets say my domain is mydomain.com and the affiliate link sells swimming pools.

I link like this:

<a href="swimming-pools.html"> Swimming Pools</a>

Which goes to a refresh page on my site then onward to the affiliate site using there link.

Any problems with this?"

[Rogi]

One thing some do is send it to a script ... say:

redirect.php?site=swimming_pools

which is good as you can create your own 'click-through' tracking.

However, you should disallow that redirect.php script in your robots.txt file.

so any good search engine won't disrupt your click-throughs, wont ban you for spam and wont have any problems at all. At least that's what i've found.

[web_seeker]

What about if you don't use PHP.

Just a simple HTML Meta refresh to the merchant's site?