Do indirect links help PR?

Do indirect links such as http://www.foo.com/cgi-bin/jump.cgi?ID=42562 help
page rank to the linkee. I believe they do not? Does anyone know for sure?

Mike

On Sat, 10 Jul 2004 21:04:54 +0200, "Martin Hagstrøm"
<mha (AT) NOSPAM (DOT) altavista.net> wrote:

"Expert who says moo" <oranges (AT) panix (DOT) com> skrev i en meddelelse
news:ccl8tj$7cg$1 (AT) reader2 (DOT) panix.com...
Do indirect links such as http://www.foo.com/cgi-bin/jump.cgi?ID=42562 help
page rank to the linkee. I believe they do not? Does anyone know for sure?

Nobody knows for sure. But I have a link that appears as a backlink when I use
the Google link:-command. My blog has this backlink:
http://www.blogwise.com/bycountry.php?country=99,
which has this link: http://www.blogwise.com/go.php?uid=99999 on it.

So if the Google links:-command is any indicator, the answer is YES.
(I've anonymised the urls since the blog is about religion).

Martin,

I am in Florida. The temperature and humidity are high. So bear with
some heat induced comments,but I am confused by your post. I thought
I knew what a "backlink" is, but now I am not so sure.

I tried following your links abouve, in the paragraph where you wrote:

But I have a link that appears as a backlink when I use
the Google link:-command. My blog has this backlink:
http://www.blogwise.com/bycountry.php?country=99,
which has this link: http://www.blogwise.com/go.php?uid=99999 on it.

Could you expalin this a little more?

Thanks.


Cheers to all,

Al
www.improvingyourfamily.com
www.improvingyourhome.com

Al F <bscinc3000 (AT) Yahoo_NoSpam (DOT) com> wrote

I am in Florida. The temperature and humidity are high.
So bear with some heat induced comments,but I am confused by your post.

You have my sympathies :-)
This year the summer in Denmark is unusually bad with temperatures
below 20 centigrades and lots of rain. But I still prefer this to heat
and humidity.

I thought I knew what a "backlink" is, but now I am not so sure.

A backlink is a link that points to my site. If I search in Google for
"link:www.name-of-my-blog.com", Google will show *some* of the sites
that point to my blog.

One of the backlinks that Google showed me was something like
www.blogwise.com/bycountry.php?country=99 - the number was not '99'
since I anonymised it. On that page there was a link like
www.blogwise.com/go.php?uid=99999 (again, the number was not 99999).

The important part is that since the above link was found by Google's
link-command it proves that Google understands that a link of the form
www.blogwise.com/go.php?uid=99999 is really a link to
www.name-of-my-blog.com. Presumably it also passes PageRank to my
blog.

I tried following your links abouve, in the paragraph where you wrote:

You can't follow the links, because I have anonymised them. And
besides there has been a Google update since I wrote that post and the
link does not appear any longer (bear in mind that Google only
presents a *selection* of the backlinks it knows about).

Could you expalin this a little more?

I live in a neighbourhood with many immigrants and some people think
that the first commandment overrules the first amendment.


--
Martin Hagstrøm
www.PageRank.dk

On 27 Jul 2004 01:47:22 -0700, mha (AT) altavista (DOT) net (Martin Hagstr?m)
wrote:

Al F <bscinc3000 (AT) Yahoo_NoSpam (DOT) com> wrote


I am in Florida. The temperature and humidity are high.
So bear with some heat induced comments,but I am confused by your post.

You have my sympathies :-)
This year the summer in Denmark is unusually bad with temperatures
below 20 centigrades and lots of rain. But I still prefer this to heat
and humidity.

In the UK we are having the worst summer since records began.

BB

I thought I knew what a "backlink" is, but now I am not so sure.

A backlink is a link that points to my site. If I search in Google for
"link:www.name-of-my-blog.com", Google will show *some* of the sites
that point to my blog.

One of the backlinks that Google showed me was something like
www.blogwise.com/bycountry.php?country=99 - the number was not '99'
since I anonymised it. On that page there was a link like
www.blogwise.com/go.php?uid=99999 (again, the number was not 99999).

The important part is that since the above link was found by Google's
link-command it proves that Google understands that a link of the form
www.blogwise.com/go.php?uid=99999 is really a link to
www.name-of-my-blog.com. Presumably it also passes PageRank to my
blog.


I tried following your links abouve, in the paragraph where you wrote:

You can't follow the links, because I have anonymised them. And
besides there has been a Google update since I wrote that post and the
link does not appear any longer (bear in mind that Google only
presents a *selection* of the backlinks it knows about).


Could you expalin this a little more?

I live in a neighbourhood with many immigrants and some people think
that the first commandment overrules the first amendment.