Opinions please..?

I recently installed a ROI tracking script for linksjuice.com, but to track sales i have to send links to in.php?blah which then get's redirected to the homepage via a javascript redirect. I'm worried that if i sent to in.php?blah then it'll look like i'll loose links to the site..?

Will PR still get passed? I have links from PR7 sites, so it'd be a shame to lose a nice link to track sales..

 

In a sense, yes, you won't have as many direct links to the site. If that's important to you, you need to track referrals programmatically

 

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Hmm, i can create a PHP 301 redirect, but then it does the redirect before the js code runs...

 

Right, this is the URL the links will be pointing to 'http://www.linksjuice.com/in.php?ad=email&s=test&fp=5', the only way i can redirect without getting errors is 'document.location.href' which is Javascript, but it's not SEO friendly...

 

its not going to pass the link juice with those paramaters on the end. It will, however, create a duplicate content page in the search engines.

I have had the same experience - don't worry about the duplicate content, it won't hurt you, but you won't get any linkjuice.

 

Won't get linkjuice even if theres a 301 redirect in the file?

 

maybe i don't quite understand what it is you're doing here. Are these internal links, or are they coming from another site?

 

They'd be coming from another site, then it'd be 301 redirected to homepage after once the script has been ran..

 

Ok. i was a bit confused.

However, I'll say that 301's are sketchy with the SEs. Google is pretty good at handling them, but i'm not sure if the full amount of link juice is passed, you know?

I was given that option about a year ago on some analytics software i was using and I decided against it.

I'd rather just be sure i was getting the link juice. Or at least do some tests before installing the links.

 

Hmm, using http://www.seochat.com/seo-tools/redirect-check/ it says that i've got it as a 301, so even though it is pointing to in.php?blah=blahblah it is a 301, so am i right in saying this will still pass pagerank and link juice?