I think most people agree that for good SEO a website should not have too many external links. On the other side, it's good to have more internal links. However, what about script links? Are they too classified as external links? Or internal links? Or neither? For example, let's say there is a website called example.com that has some links to site1.com, site2.com, such as: <a href="http://example.com/cgi-bin/count_click.cgi?goto=http://site1.com">Site 1</a> <a href="http://example.com/cgi-bin/count_click.cgi?goto=http://site2.com">Site 2</a> Do search engines say that example.com has 2 external links? Or are they internal links? Or something else?
Well, google does not like too much links that link to other websites. So, I'm asking if it is "bad" if you have outgoing script links? Or does the negative effect of having too many outgoing/external links applies only to "hard links" ?
Those are internal links. Just because they have a variable with an outbound address doesn't make them external link.
There is no prolem in linking out to other websites. However if you do it excessively you might get classed as a link farm with little original content, this I would imagine is a bad thing for ranks. To avoid such classification one would have to have some original content and have a normal and healthy link growth that proves you have a useful website.
Yes they are classified as external links but It depends. As for example, spiders/crawlers cant always go through scripts but if you have <script> direct links< /script> then surely they are classified as external links. But if the script links are dynamic links and changes on the fly, like the mybloglog widget or even adsense, then they not classified as external links.