OK Linking to search results, directory pages?

Will linking to search results that show your site help or hurt?

[treeline]

I see a number of sites that from their homepage link back to Google and other SE's results or directory pages like this:

We're #1 on Google! see <keyword>

(which links to directory-google-com-keyword)

--OR--

Find more results on keyword at <google> <yahoo> <etc>

(which links to search-results on keyword)

Will this approach help boost your listing by creating reciprocal links if you're on the page linked to? Can it hurt you? (as a nonprofit site I'm not concerned about competitors)

thanks for your thoughts.

[Alternative Future]

Hello and welcome to WebMasterWorld treeline,

Will this approach help boost your listing by creating reciprocal links if you're on the page linked to? Can it hurt you? (as a nonprofit site I'm not concerned about competitors)

This will not harm your listing, as for doing it any good am not sure! It might give it a slight advantage over others with a reciprocal link in place :)

HTH,

-gs

[Shak]

my money is on it being part of 2 things:

1, Old wives tale

2, In cases where they are doing to a directory rather than SERPS, than they could be trying to give "that" page a boost for certain resons.

#1 is what I think though.

Shak

[jimbeetle]

Would think that unless a bit of surgery is done most of the raw urls with search strings would have too many parameters for Google to follow in the first place.