http://www.connexions-direct.com/index.cfm?pid=235&catalogueContentID=1058 i managed to get connexions to post my story 2 back links in the story but im wondering if it would count as a quality backlink considering it is related in terms of education and students but the section has no page rank ... infact how do i find out what google sees my site genre as?
If links are not use no follow tag, then they are backlinks. But backlinks coming from high PR + relevant pages will worth much more.
As far as I can see the backlinks in your article are redirects, so they're only good for sending traffic.