There are some people who are going to be linking to us from their websites. We have set up redirects for them (e.g., www.learnoutloud.com/theirname which would resolve to www.learnoutloud.com/somethingelse/theirID/etc) and what I'm wondering is whether links that are established to the backlinks will help for SEO purposes? I think I recall hearing a while back that they wouldn't but wanted to double-check. Having them link to the redirect would be easier but if it doesn't help us for SEO then we'll likely encourage them to link to the full URL.