Link from Authority Site

page rank, link, buyer's guide, one way link

[SaltCreek]

I just spent a bunch of cash to purchase a link in the Buyer's Guide from a authority web site in my new site's industry. The active link is for 6 months.

My primary motiviation was to get a one way link from this site, although I think some real traffic will also occur. The page they are linking to us from has a nice PR of 6.

They just set the link up today and I've noticed that the link does not go directly to us, but rather to a <third party company> and then they redirect to our site. It looks like it's being done in ASP and not JavaScript.

My question is, does this mean our company will not recieve credit for the back link from the authority site?

[edited by: martinibuster at 8:46 pm (utc) on Feb. 22, 2005]
[edit reason] edited for specifics. [/edit]

[justdave]

Hi SaltCreek. I would guess that you are probably not getting credit on the SEs for that link. At least, I think.

[nuevojefe]

It's most likely that you will not get credit for this link from all search engines.

Is your URL in the link? Or is it like /jump.asp?ID=39292 or similar?

[SaltCreek]

The URL is embedded into the link, but it was broken up into segments.

I called this afternoon and cancelled the posting on their web site. Quite frankly, it was a lame/dubious implementaion.

The page where your link resides is a PR of 6, but within this page they have an <iframe></iframe> that links to a different URL all together with a PR of 0.

In all fairness, the listing would have translated into some real traffic, but I was more interested in buying PR from an authority site within our industry.