redirect and google- is this a penalty?

redirect penalty

[cl328]

hello,

I have a site with about 20-25 pages.
One page has a PHP redirect (ONLY FOR TRACKING purposes).

Example:
I have 2 links (button images) on every page that point to this redirect page.

I do this so I know when people click on these button images that takes the user to another page (off my site).

IS this wrong?
Is this a penalty?

My site was finally deep crawled about 5 days ago.
The site has been up since Jan. 1st.
PR is blank - empty - gray.

I'm a little worried I'm doing something wrong and I NEED THIS site to be ranked.... (as in I need to make money)

The PHP redirect page ONLY has this code (nothing else is in this page):

<?
$URL="https://www.anotherwebpage.com";
header ("Location: $URL");
?>

THANK YOU FOR YOU HELP!
-Larry

[korkus2000]

You should wait until the Feb update for PR. If you have incoming links that google can crawl then just be patient. I don't know what kind of redirect that code resolves to but you should be fine.

[jdMorgan]

Larry,

Index updates based on deep crawls are monthly. You'll see your updates at the end of this month, if the pattern holds. Freshbot listings may give you a temporary boost or periodic boosts until then.

Work on getting incoming links from high-PR sites in your market segment with on-topic link text, and expand your content.

HTH,
Jim

[cl328]

whew!

Thanks!

I thought I was okay... but you know how it is...
One month can seem like a year.
Or worse, you can change something thinking you did something wrong :)

[korkus2000]

If your curious as to what the server header is telling Googlebot then you can check it in your control panel here:
[webmasterworld.com...]

[cl328]

Thanks korkus,

I put the url in header checker and the results were the "link page" heading.

So I guess this is okay?

I have never used the header checker, can you tell me about the information it gives you?

How do I use that information and/or why is it important?

THANK YOU VERY MUCH for your response.
-Larry

PS. The page my website links to is actually a page on the "corporate" web site. I was just trying to make sure that redirecting is not a penalty... or at least in the fashion that I did it (via php)