Do tracking parameters dilute ranking of page?

We have thousands of links with diferent tracking parameters...

[monkeythumpa]

We use a popular web analytics tool that tracks incoming visitors' behaviors. As they come in it looks for a parameter like this:

www.myURL.com/page.htm?trackingid=theirURL

A few sites have a bunch of our content with links to other related content on our site. Not a big deal now, but as we roll out our content out to hundreds of sites, will the Search Engines treat each link differently because the tracking parameter has a different URL after it?

[howiejs]

I also have the same question. One of our sites use

refer=xyz

[sharbel]

Fairly certain they would treat them as different results. I know on my one site, I have a news blog for feature updates to the application. The first page is mydomain.com/news.aspx.. second page is mydomain.com/news.aspx?page=1 etc for each page. The first page has PR 5, the second has PR 3, and pretty much the rest have PR2

[winglian]

if u were looknig to avoid the pr dilution, you could just 301 redirect them to the base page w/o the tracking uri and the tracking info would still show up in the logs

Wing

[g1smd]

Yep. Do the 301 thing at your end. That will work.