Page Rank and tracking links

M

Mike Mueller

I am going to start tracking all the external links I have
using asp. What effect will this have on the PR for my site
and for the other sites when I use the following code. I
added the strDisUrl to allow the other site to get the
PageRank (Just trying to be thoughtful)

Any suggestions are appreciated along with comments

The link format
www.mysite.com/exit.asp?Destination=http://www.theirsite.com

and the coding for exit.asp

<%
dim strURL
dim strDisURL
strURL = Request.QueryString("Destination")
strDisURL = "<a href=" & strURL & ">" & strURL & "</a>"
-------code for saving the info
response.redirect(strURL)
%>
<html><body>
<% =strDisURL %>
</body></html>
 
J

Jon Spivey

It will kill the PR for the other sites - google doesn't like redirects
unless they're legit (ie a 301, which an asp response.redirect isn't). It
won't make a difference to your PR. If you want to boost PR on an external
site link to them with the keywords they'd like to be found under, eg <a
href="http://www.wesellwidgets.com">Widgets</a>

You can either give the other site PR or track the links - not both

--
Cheers,
Jon
Microsoft MVP


Page Rank is based on the sites that link to you
 

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