Baffled by some cgi links showing as backlinks

but not others

[steveb]

I use a common cgi-bin redirect to count clicks on my advertisers' banners. If you go to the site in my profile and hover your cursor you can see both the redirect and the target addresses. These target address of the advertisers tend to have tracking codes so they can count clicks from their side, so the urls look like www.theirsite.com/index.html?1234 or www.theirsite.com/?source=1234

Up till today I've never seen my site listed in the backlinks for my advertisers. I've presumed this is because of my using the cgi-bin redirect. But now lo and behold I find that one of my advertisers *is* showing my links as backlinks. I immediately checked, and yes I have the redirect on them just like the others. Also, my target www.theirsite.com/index.html?1234 shows as backlinks to www.theirsite.com/ so maybe the way they have formatted their destination URL is smarter than the other guys... since the other guys aren't getting any PR value from the 130+ links I send to their sites.

I can understand the standard "googlebot doesn't follow cgi redirects" but if you look at the various choices on my first page and recognize the one I'm talking about, you will see that it is showing my links as backlinks. This has me completely puzzled, AND I'm not sure if it is a good thing or a bad one. So...

I'm wondering if there is a known way to set up destination URLs with "?1234" addresses so that links show as backlinks... and can anybody postulate on why one destination site is showing my backlinks while the other five aren't. (Well, one is a total redirect, so I'm thinking of the other four.)

This is probably either trivial or extremely important, since 130+ decent quality PR links from my pages could make a lot of difference to these destination sites.

[steveb]

Ok, it is dorky to bump your own thread, but nobody has any experience with this?

[bcc1234]

I also got it for some sites.