How much are redirected links that look like this worth?
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Hi, All!
If another site (example.com) links to you, and upon mouseover of the link, you see it's supposed to go to something like:
http://example.com/index.php?option=com_mtree&task=visit&link_id=123&Itemid=456
and then when clicked on you get to your actual site, is that considered a real link? How much of a link?
Thanks!
Aviva
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It should be the same, I believe this was to avoid giving you a link, but i have noticed lately that many links like this are being picked up in WMT.
If you find it in WMT you can say its the same value.
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