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I just want to create a small directory for programming related websites and I'm a bit confused at the moment. I want to know how many times visitors clicked on a link on certain websites, but I still want Google to redirect this link to Site X, without losing any SEO value (for Google, This link is still left to look like a clean backlink, not a link from a PHP file that takes the user to another website).

The question is, if I use jQuery to post some data (just "Link X LinkedIn") to a PHP script before the default behavior (directing the user to the page) Will this link be punished or still be as valuable as a normal backlink?

Thank you all, Claudio.

A JavaScript-free way of doing this might be to use a 301 redirect. Google also passes PR when redirecting to 301 (I'm not sure if 302 PR passes), so if you use a 301 redirect from your tracking page, you'll be fine. And 301 should also protect the reference information.

Edit.

I would like to explain the logic of this method. As Tim has noted below, this is not actually a formal use of the 301 redirect, which is technically a way for a web server to indicate that resources have moved permanently. Similarly, 302 is technical to indicate when a resource has been temporarily transferred to a new location.

However, 301/302 response codes have a history of app allocation by browsers, search engines and developers for other uses. For example, before 303 existed, it was common to use 302 redirects in response to POST requests when you wanted to send the user to another page (when preventing the form re-submit page from refreshing. for the). It was not technically for which 302 was to be used, but due to the lack of alternatives, using the 302 was the standard practice. Today we have 303, so 302 redirects should no longer be used for this kind of modification, although many applications still work.

Another common non-standard use of 301/302 redirects is to shorten URLs. For SEO purposes it is widely suggested that, if you need to shorten URLs, you use a service that redirects to 301. But the content is technically not delivered to the short URL. Short URL is just a new alias for it.

However, when you use JavaScript or choose between 301 redirects for click tracking, keep the following things in mind:

Google recommends using a Javascript method, and they are the only authority on web analytics and SEO.
As Tim mentioned, JavaScript prevents you from counting your click tracker (though you might filter crawlers in another way).
The use of the 301 redirect method is not consistent with the official use of 301 in the HTTP specs.
On the flip side, you allow tracking without Javascript.