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It would seem that links used in the above fashion don't lead to actual links on Google (if I check the backwards link of a site I link to).
Does anyone have any experience with this?
If you're looking for people to solicit links from and you use a jump script, then the people you ask may not be as willing to link to you.
Calum
I'm just wondering in what way does Google respond to these redirects, if at all. I've looked through my logs and I can't find googlebot hitting the jump script ever. (I would also expect to have a hit in my exit log table as well.)
Does Google completely ignore them, or 'remember' them somewhere (for later time) when parsing your HTML?
Google's been changing how it deals with URLs that look "dynmic", and how it deals with redirects.
My (untested) guess is that if you set up /script-name/redirectId and use a 301 redirect you'll get the PageRank counted (though may be not this time last month).
To do this you'll need to have a list of Ids and URLs to redirect to and get your script to look them up That shouldn't take long to set up.
I don't know if /directory/whatever will work (with /directory/index.php); if not then a couple of mod_rewrite lines in httpd.conf or .htaccess is easy enough (assuming Apache).
Calum
Does Google ignore a link like this?
_ttp://_ww.domain.com/directory//jump.php?sid=2&url=AnotherDomain
(underscores inserted to prevent making a link)
Doesn't Google sometimes use such a script to count links also?
