Backlinks and CGI

[rover]

We need to keep track of the number of clicks that are made to some sites that we link to from our site, so we use a perl script that does this for us.

The problem is that the links from our PR 5+ pages don't show up as backlinks on google for the sites we are linking to.

The links we use to the other sites look something like:

ourdomain.com/cgi/bounce.cgi?ID=25&url=http://www.theirurl.com

Does anyone know if there is another way we can link to outside sites, so that our links to them are recognized by google, but still be able to keep track of the number of clicks on the links?

I noticed that google links to sites with something like:

<a href=http://www.domain.com/ onmousedown="return clk(this,'res',6)">

Is this done by javascript, and if we implemented something similar can/will spiders follow it like a standard link?

[martinibuster]

Many log analyzers can give you information about exit pages. Log analyzers are as cheap as ninety nine dollars. I also use a hosted solution that tells me what exit pages are being used. Easy.

[rover]

Thanks, the problem is that I need to know for each specific link on a given page how many times that specific link has been clicked on, and still have googlebot and spiders follow the link...

[steveb]

[site.com...]

This will show as a backlink. Maybe you need to experiment with another script.

[rover]

Thanks very much. I wonder if the problem is using the ID parameter. I think I read somewhere that google doesn't like that in the URL string because it might be a session ID. Maybe that's the problem and I'll have to try a rewrite or something like that to get rid of the ID= part.