Question re linkpages that use a meta-refresh=0 autoforward

Discussion in 'Link Development' started by minarets, Dec 15, 2005.

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    I've seen several sites where the link pages don't point directly to the site being linked, but they point to another page on the local site, which apparently uses a "meta refresh=0" technique. Clicking on the link does take you to the site that's being linked to, but sort of indirectly...

    So basically:
    1. A site has a page called sitename.com/links.html
    2. On links.html, there is a link to "Linked Site", but the actual href points to sitename.com/links/linkedsite.html
    3. linkedsite.html contains a 0-second refresh that then takes the visitor to the actual "Linked Site" website.

    My question is, does this technnique actually count as a link-back to the search engines, or could it even be considered as a spam technique in the sense of the 0-second refresh?

    min.
     
    minarets, Dec 15, 2005 IP