A link that has a tracking variable after it site.com?ref=43534

will this be not considered a back-link to my domain?

[adrianTNT]

Hello.

I wanted to know... if I add a variable after the link in order to track the sales, etc, will Google not consider that as a link to my site if it has variable after URL.

[site.com?ref=432123...]

Is not so good for SEO as a 'clean' link to site? Like:

[site.com...]

Anyone knows abot such things?
Thank you.
- Adrian.

[greedy player]

try site.com/ref104024/ set up a mod rewrite, how will google know?

[adrianTNT]

I do not know if that will work well in my case, it will complicate things, I have many sites linking to me.
So if you said that then you think a link with variables is not as good as a clean link.

[sun818]

You can also do a 301 redirect from the ref= to the clean URL without the ref. Your referer log should have the referral data anyway. Is the ref= necessary?

[Crush]

it is considered as a different url. Google ranks pages not sites