Hello

On my links page I link to this file gotoURL.php?id=

I send the ID as a GET variable and this then selects that record from the MYSQL database. It will increace the clicks count by one so that I can see how many times each link has been clicked.

Once it has done this it will redirect the user using

header("location:$URL");

My question is will this affect search engine spiders who rate the site on links out and in?

Will they be able to see that this is a link to another website.

How would you suggest doing this ?

Search engines will find the external url if you setup a robots.txt file, telling them to follow all, or of course add the follow all command in your meta tags.

Could you write the line that needs adding to the robots.txt file for follow all

Also I have dissallowed some directories e.g admin will this effect what will be indexed ?

Thankyou