Inbound Hardcoded Links Necessary?

best way to implement a forwarding tracking url...

[thinkrick]

First post here, I appreciate all the help...

I've been reading a lot about Google optimization in the last few days, but I'm having a hard time figuring out this particular issue.

Google obviously loves inbound links, but how much do tracking scripts affect the value?

In other words, having a traffic exchange or affiliate program where the incoming links don't point directly to the home page (for which I'm trying to gain PR). The tracking url obviously ends up directing the user to the homepage eventually, but do I lose out on the PR value of that inbound link?

If so, is there any way to format the tracking script so Google will count it as an incoming link properly?

i.e. mysite.com/incoming.php?site=45&url=mysite.com/home/

I appreciate any help on this subject...

Thanks,
Rick

[Nuttakorn]

Normal Link (<a href>) is the best way to do, google may have trouble on index link on parameter in dynamic link and almost those link haven't got much of value like pagerank value. Static Link is most efficient.

[creative craig]

If there is a redirect in the link to count the clicks then the PR will not get passed in my experience.

The straight HTML variety of linking is the best for seo. That way you will hopefully get the PR and keyword anchor text.

Google has been known to have problems with the types of links that you are talking about, the ? and = can cause problems and not get crawled at all.

[thinkrick]

This is a format variation of an inbound link I've been researching to a specific keyword:

hit.program.net/in.php?q=2742,13,1,0,0,84,0,5,0,A,http://www2.sitehere.com/

The www2.sitehere.com page is #1 for a very popular keyword. When I do a "link:www2.sitehere.com", all the inbound links are in the tracking format above.

Do some spiders get through, while others don't?

Thanks.

[creative craig]

The spiders are getting better at indexing all kinds of long URLs. I can think of a few sites that have just a huge increase in Googles index because Google crawled and fully indexed all of the long URLs.

Having said that there still can be problems with indexing these types of URLs.

[steve128]

I'll say getting good at following long url's alright.
Links from my site point to the suppliers order form.
The friggin order forms are turning up front page and not my site.
My id is burried in the url, but jeez who's gonna order anything without reading/researching further.

Bog standard order form (https)
Obviously not optimized, keyword mentioned once on page, no mention in title. My site name is mentioned bottom of page but no link.
This happens across a whole range of products.
This is new,(last 7-days) maybe they will disapear shortly

example of url

[thesiteinquestion.com...]