Redirecting outbound links

[Receptional Andy]

I'm sure this has been asked before, so if anyone point me in the direction of some good links it would be much appreciated :)

If I use a redirect script for all outbound links, do they count as normal (i.e. direct) links, or does this mean my site appears to contain entirely internal links? If I wanted to do the former or the latter, any suggestions?

[korkus2000]

They do pass off some PR with Google, but how much I do not know. I have seen pages get PR with only inbounds from these types of links. As for other engines I don't really know.

[Receptional Andy]

I set up these redirects after the last update so I will have to wait and see I suppose!

I was looking at existing sites using redirects, and I noticed that webmasterworld has very few pages cached by Google. Didn't see any relevant meta tags in the source...Anyone know why this is?

[korkus2000]

I believe it is because of this line in the robots.txt

User-agent: Googlebot-Image
Disallow: /

Also if you sign out you will see this meta tag

<META NAME="GOOGLEBOT" CONTENT="NOARCHIVE">

[Receptional Andy]

>>User-agent: Googlebot-Image
Disallow: /

Wouldn't that just stop the imagebot and not the main page bot (from including WW in an image search)?

[Receptional Andy]

On the original post topic, I found one of WW's redirect links counted by Google in a backlink search:

[google.com...]

(http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum7/550.htm links to www.bbc.co.uk/search/tryout/about.shtml)

It's a shame the -link: command doesn't work any more, or I could have made a guess at how much PR was passed on. Also WW is using 302s for the redirection, so that might be the way to go. My script is also using 302s.