Does this count as a link?

[Atomicx]

Somebody listed me on their site with this link code

A Link Between Worlds Walkthrough  

It does this weird redirect tracking thing to my site. Would that count as a link back to me?

[jorgen_juel]

Hello,

First of all, the link is a nofollow, which means that google crawlers (and other bots) will not follow this page. So it will not be counted as a backlink torward your site.

In terms of the actual url, I'm actually not sure wether or not this works. It depends on the way they redirect your url I guess.

[BlueprintMarketing]

Are you using WordPress? If so what it looks like they've done is a TrackBack name is cited something from your website on their blog and are trying to either get away with taking something or do the right thing I don't know you should follow up with it ASAP

http://moz.com/blog/33-link-building-questions-answered

[Paddy_Moogan]

Hi Noah,

The short answer is that a link that contains the rel="nofollow" attribute is not counted by Google and therefore, it wouldn't affect your rankings. You can read more on the official position of Google and nofollow here:

https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/96569?hl=en

Putting that to one side, the link itself is a little "messy" and it is plausible that it wouldn't count anyway even if it didn't have the nofollow attribute include. The reason for this is that it looks like the link is powered by JavaScript and when clicked on, the website pulls your URL from a database and sends the user to that URL. This is indicated by the "id=295" part of the link which indicates that you're listed in a database as entry 295 and the URL is pulled from that when clicked on.

Google crawlers are getting better and better at understanding links that are like this, but it is hard to know for sure if it would be counted if the nofollow attribute wasn't present.

I hope that helps a bit!

Paddy