Say a company offers a link within their site, example: www. xyx.com/goto.php?http://www. 123.com Is that link helping 123.com site with SEO at all? Do search engines see that and help with rankings or page rank for Google at all? Just curious on other people's opinions or better yet, facts and resource stating such fact. Thanks...
It is not considered an absolute backlink, so it provides no SEO or Pagerank value. However it does help with indexing and crawling since they will still follow the link to the source, this is assuming that it isn't using the rel="nofollow" attribute.