Redirect links

Capturing outbound link information

[Tastatura]

Hi all,
I am a bit new so bear with me…

On my pages, I would like to know what outbound links visitors clicked on (not AdSense or similar related). I can set up some type of redirect script to capture this information similar to WM’s

… href=http://www.webmasterworld.com/rd.cgi?f=89&d=12550&url=http://www.example.com/page.html …

My question is how will SEs see and interpret this type of a link – will they see it and ‘credit’ it as an outbound link, or will they think that it’s inbound link (because it starts with my domain name, or …?
Thanks

P.S. or is there any (better?) way to capture wanted information?

[larryn]

Tastatura,

The more or less standard way is to use a server re-direct, or if you are using a page-tag method, you can use the JavaScript onClick event to capture the clickout.

Larry

[Tastatura]

Thanks for the info Larry. Assuming that I don’t want to use Java/JavaScript, but rather have a redirect script, hence producing URL as shown in the example, how would SEs see it and what would be impact to SEO practices (at the moment I am more interested in that rather then at technical solution for capturing the info)?

[Tastatura]

Bump. Anyone has an opinion how would major SEs ‘see’ this type of a "redirect" link (would they recognize it as an outbound link, or not, etc.). Help is greatly appreciated.

… href=http://www.webmasterworld.com/rd.cgi?f=89&d=12550&url=http://www.example.com/page.html …