[bbratu]

I have a site (a so colled "directory site").

I am curently using heder redirect for the sites listed in the directory.

I saw that this forum also uses a redirect for the ouside links and I am wondering which is the right method to do the redirect without loosing pagerank.

Thanks in advance.

[rustybrick]

You will want to track the number of outgoing links in order to provide these results to potential listees (is this a word?).

So you will need to do some sort of redirect to store the information.

Look how Yahoo handles it.

[bbratu]

A am curently counting the number of clinks on a certain link but I do not know how it's best to do the redirect with header redirect or with javascript (so that google will not consider my site a link farm).

I am wondering what kind of redirect SEO is doing.

[yintercept]

On Salt Lake Sites I wanted to count the hits, so I use a server side redirect. You will notice that most the hits go to a program called lnk.php?id=???. Google and others hit my server side redirects heavily. To reduce the load on my database, I decided to exclude lnk.php in robots.txt. (This seems to save about 20,000 database hits a month.

Of course, the sites I am linking to don't get a PR boost from me, but I didn't develop the program to boost people's PR...I designed it as a directory for end users.

This program was easy to implement, and is fast.

To my surprise, my hits from Google increased after I excluded lnk.php. So I don't think Google penalized me.

[amitbhawnani]

You would end up loosing PR with a header redirect....Try going the javascript way


Amit Bhawnani