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[marciofelias]

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[JaneCopland]

Hi Marcio,

This is very common in the affiliate marketing world. The URL will redirect to an affiliate with the affiliate's ID. If you look at a site like http://www.pokeronline.co.uk/, they're doing this - the link out to http://www.pokeronline.co.uk/Visit/pacificpoker.html 301s to http://www.888poker.com/?sr=399458&flag=0000 (just using this as an example, found via Google).

If you're the site receiving the link, you're better off having a direct link rather than a link that goes through someone else's internal redirect (or any redirect, for that matter). You lose some PageRank in the process, just like you do with any 301.

Cheers,

Jane

[marciofelias]

Thank you Jane, actually I have a customer that ask me to put all their external links this way.

Ie, linking to a page of his website and this page redirects to the other websites.

I'm looking read opinions about what kind of benefit or harm it might cause, since I don't have any formed opinion about it.