Do postnuke/phpnuke web links pass on PR?

Or do SEs count them as back links?

[surfgatinho]

Does anybody know whether a link from a nuke site counts as a back link as far as search engines are concerned.
If not is there any way of changing this as I want to be able to offer people more than just a link without any of the fringe benefits.

Thanks
Chris

[ergophobe]

If the page comes up in Google, then the link should count, shouldn't it? It might not count for much, but it should count. That's one of the reasons that WebmasterWorld frowns on forum link spammers.

[mincklerstraat]

It depends on how the script handles the link. Nuke sites generally generate a kind of redirect - user clicks on a link to a redirect script in the same site (used to update number of clickthrus for that link) and then the user is redirected to the desired site. In general, it's much better to have a regular link than one of these clickthru's when it comes to page rank. That said, I do know I've seen clickthru links listed in the backlinks of some searchengines (don't remember if I've seen this with google).

You could change this, but if you don't see it in the admin options page for your links module (and it probably isn't there), you'll have to dive into the php and do it from there. Find the part where the php outputs the link, and change that part with the value from the db corresponding to the link itself.