Seo friendly outgoing links....

I just bought a top list site
When a user clicks on a link, it records this outgoing visit in the database by running out.php with an ID, then redirects to the afformentioned site

Is this SEO friendly, its not a direct link so im not sure

Thanks

 

Per my knowledge, no.

The URLs should look like normal not out.php?ID=343 etc.

 

i would agree with the above, anything that tracks is normally a script and is sometimes a redirect aswell so i would say no is not search engine friendly

 

It's not SE friendly at all.

You could replace the link with a text link with a javascript onclick() for tracking which will be SE friendly.

 

so replace the currt page with the tracking one?

ir refresh the page the link comes from, or would you open another window for tracking?

thanks
andrew

 

I didnt think most spiders could get past a link with javascript? Has this changed?

 

The link would be a normal text link, only with javascript that executes 'onclick' of the link. So the SE can follow the link, it just doesn't execute the javascript tracking code.

 

Well surely the same is applicable for incoming links as per my other post...

 

Are you trying to pass PR?

 

PR is irrelavant to me... however, i guess that is a good test to see if your links are SEO friendly

 

i dont think those kinds of links are seo friendly

 

so what would you recommend....