Recently we hired a link builder and he isn't very competent with html. He provides a lot of links that have extra spaces after the url in the link. So the link would look like <a href="http://www.domain.com ">link</a>. Should I be worried about this? Will the search engines still give us credit for such links? Technically the links work in both firefox & ie, but I'm worried about how the search engine spiders handle such links. Does anyone have experience with something like this?
Try to click such link. If you will be able to go to your website through such link the search engine spider will do the same and give you credit for such link. If you will get 404 error the same result will get the spider.
Thanks for your answers. I hope that is true. I don't really agree that any working clickable link necessarily will be counted by search engine spiders. Javascript redirect links are clickable, but they likely won't help your rankings. Search engine spiders do not behave exactly the same as web browser software. internetmarketingiq, I'd appreciate if you could avoid the criticism. You can't always tell how good someone's services are until you try them. The guy competently did what I asked, he just can't code html to save his life. But hey at least you got your 2 second post in to build your backlinks.