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Redirect script or not? Bad? Good?

         

serpmaster

1:04 am on Oct 20, 2007 (gmt 0)



Is it bad to use?redirect=theurl instead of linking directly? I wanna keep stats of outgoing links but this messes with SEO...

What do you say?

jd01

7:47 pm on Oct 20, 2007 (gmt 0)

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Depends on what you want...
If you are trying to pass link weight, don't.
If you are trying to not pass link weight, disallow the redirect page in robots.txt and/or nofollow the links.

Really it depends on what your goal is.

Justin

londrum

9:36 pm on Oct 20, 2007 (gmt 0)

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you have to put in safeguards so you won't get penalised when spammers start placing thousands of
?redirect=http://www.their-spammy-website.com
links all over the web.