Indirect Links that go through a CGI Bin Ok?

Hot or Not?

[Emperor]

Hi guys,

If someone is using a trade script and their link to me ends up something like this:

<a href="http://their-site.com/cgi-bin/blah/blah/my-site.com">My Site</a>

...does that still count as an incoming links for me? Is a pure hard link better: <a href="http://www.mysite.com">?

Thanks.

[Jack_Smith]

Yes, so far I know indirect link does not get value in the eyes of search engines. Because the all value goes to the host site. They are not showing the link to the search engines and search engine can't crawl this link. So you are not going to get any value. So better not to take indirect link. You can take direct link by which you will get more value. I thing direct link is good for you.

[surfgatinho]

This is something the search engines should work on IMO

It annoys me that certain sites have the mind set of "we'll link to their site because it's great and useful to our users, but we don't want them to benefit from our PR (or whatever they think)"

Would have a big effect if all those links on scraper sites actually counted.

[blue_eagle]

How about a link link like this http://www.example.com/see_em_click/campaigns/admin/AdRedir.asp?AdID=400&camp_id=271&URL=http://www.mydomain.com

Does that type of link benefit in terms of PR?

Thanks

[edited by: martinibuster at 11:22 pm (utc) on Dec. 19, 2005]
[edit reason] examplified [/edit]