anchors and redirects

what constitutes a redirect

[topr8]

have just been doing some link exchanging and building and come accross a site with links of the format...

<a href="http://www.example.com" onClick="this.href='/dir.cgi/go?example123'; return(true);">

now i'm assuming this is a link that google would count towards linkpop or am i mistaken, it seems there is some kind of counter or something going on.

any thoughts??

[Racecar78]

topr8,

In my experience, yes, that will count within Google as link pop.

My theory on how that type of link would be interpreted would match how it handles attributes within the A HREF tag such as:

class="attrib" for Stylesheets
target="attrib" for Browser Windows

and others. The above which, I have all found to be counted as backward links to many of my sites.

[topr8]

thanks for the confirmation, have been doing some google backlink research and it shows pretty much what you're saying.