My Links Blew Up )-:

My links contain gibberish that I didn't load

[OddLot]

Hey everyone,

I'm getting some bizarre errors in my link code and it's happening for all external links to any other site.

Here's the code in dreamweaver that I uploaded:
a href="http://example.com/1/the-golden-rules/" style="text-decoration:none"><span class="style6">i</span> The Golden Rules...</a>

When I go to the site, and view the source, I see:
<a href="http://example.com/1/the-golden-rules/" style="text-decoration:none" onClick="window.location.href='http://www.example.com/cgi-bin/counter.pl?url=http%3A%2F%2Fblog.example.com%2F1%2Fthe-golden-rules%2F&referrer=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.example.com%2Findex.html'; return false;"><span class="style6">i</span> The Golden Rules...</a>

What is all that bizarre gibberish and how do I keep that from happening? Spiders hate complicated links and all of my external and blog links are a complete mess.

Thanks!
Odd Lot

[edited by: encyclo at 1:27 am (utc) on Aug. 8, 2008]
[edit reason] switch to example.com [/edit]

[rocknbil]

/cgi-bin/counter.pl?....

If looks to me like you are hosted on a "free host" that trades advertising for free services and all your links are being modified on upload. There really could be no other explanation. They are inserting their link counter. When it's clicked, it passes to the link counter, then on to the intended link, so if you never view source, you'll never know the difference.

Welcome aboard OddLot!

[OddLot]

Thank you, Rock! And thank you for the welcome to Webmaster as well (-:

[Xapti]

What's cool is that anyone with javascript disabled (or disabled specifically for that host, such as with noscript) will be able to bypass this counter/logging.