Are these links on timeout.com passing any value?

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http://www.timeout.com/competition/ALHDubrovnik?DCMP=EMC-Travel-2011-07-14

The links pass through an internal system e.g. www.timeout.com/extern_link/?http://www.alh.hr

Or what is the benefit to timeout of doing this?

Cheers

S

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Not sure whether they pass value or not, but a likely reason to do this is to keep track of click-outs. By passing the links through the internal system they can view what links are clicked and how many times.