Click tracking script and PR

[Edwin]

I have been reading the posts about how linking to a "bad neighbourhood" can damage/destroy a site's PR.

So what happens when you have e.g. 1,000 outgoing links (because you're a resource site) and one of the links becomes outdated without you noticing, and that linked site's domain expires gets bought up by a link farm-type outfit and immediately gets a bad reputation?

In other words, you have a situation like this:

LARGE DIRECTORY OF USEFUL LINKS
Link 1 -> Useful site 1
Link 2 -> Useful site 2
...
Link n -> Formerly useful site whose domain has been bought by a link-farm and "destroyed" PR-wise
Link n+1 -> Useful site n+1
...
Link z

A) Is the above an issue?
B) Would the above be mitigated by sending all outgoing links via a link tracker script that "masks" the outgoing URL?
C) Are there any downsides to B)?

Thanks in advance for your help and advice!

[yetanotheruser]

IMHO it depends on the value of 'n'.. I doubt 1 link in 100 would harm you, but if 75% of your links are to bad pages then I'd expect it would..

I don't know much about banning though so I'd wait for one of the seniors to confirm/deny this ;)

HTH :)

[Edwin]

Thanks for your comment. I am also hoping that having a couple such links at any one time won't be an issue.

I hope somebody will step in and confirm/deny my suggestion re. the link tracker script. GoogleGuy?