Hello all. I have been commenting few blogs and noticed a thing that bothers me. I have seen that the bloggers are adding some extra characters in my URL which means that when I submit my link within the comment it may look like this: <a href="http://www.the-site.com/?URL=http%3A%2F%2Fwww. my-url.com">keyword</a> Also, when you point your cursor over the link it will be displayed like this in the status bar: http://www.my-url.com?URL=http://www.the-site.com Would be thankful if someone could clarify this to me. Thanks in advance.
They do not want a direct outgoing link from their site, which is why they do like that. Such link will not be of value from search engine & backlink point of view.
If you hoer over it, nad it says 'http://www.my-url.com?URL=http://www.the-site.com', then it's not a valid backlink.
its a redirect link with now value. and also all the long streams make it hard for the search engine to follow.