Does hotlinking between two sites constitute a link-back?

[israr]

Hi all,

I have a website which provides news service to other sites. They paste a code in their website e.g.

<script language='javascript' src='http://www.my-site/news.aspx'>
</script>

OR

<iframe src='http://www.my-site/news.aspx'></iframe>.

I want to know whether search-engine considers above as a link-back, i.e. does it contributes in website popularity for search-engine.

Thanks for help.

[vicky]

using iframe to do so is a better option as javascript is not crawled