Are these kind of links any good for SEO or not?

[wrreisen]

Hi,

I've looked on a certain site and the outbound links they give in a php page when you view source are of the form on a made up site called example.net to made up example.com:

<a href="http://www.example.net/outbound.php?url=http://www.example.com" class='f12' style="color:#3769A8" target="_blank" alt="External link to http://www.example.com" title="External link to http://www.example.com">

Would Google, Yahoo, MSN bots follow this kind of link or not be able to. I have checked backlinks from www.example.com on Yahoo and www.example.net isn't mentioned.

Thanks for any advice.

[edited by: martinibuster at 7:33 am (utc) on July 26, 2008]
[edit reason] examplified [/edit]

[incrediBILL]

That's a redirected link via a PHP script and unless the site sends you traffic, of very little value. In the past such links were responsible for the infamous Google 302 hijacking.

I'd be careful.

[jaffstar]

Agreed. Its deceptive , as visually you think you are getting a link, until your browse the sourcecode.