basically what I want to know is this- If you look at this page you will see a banner ad on top - http://www.tamparacing.com/forums/index.php? It is being run through a custom ad management program - My question is this - do banners which are operated through programs like this, or PHPadsnew count as links off your site and pass PR?
It probably doesn't, but if you want to be sure, add a robots.txt with the following: User-agent: * Disallow: /cgi-bin/ Code (markup):