: I understand your problem. You may want to track users who click in a certain link, or how much of your users go to certain partner, or something like that. I can't really say what should

I understand your problem. You may want to track users who click in a certain link, or how much of your users go to certain partner, or something like that.

I can't really say what should be indexing problems. The first and unique that came to me now is that your page juice is not passed to target pages, hence search engines will consider those links as internal links.

But I would propose a solution that should work well in most cases. Use AJAX on those links. Use rel attribute into those anchors, like:

<a rel="external" href="http:yourpartner.tld">See more here</a>

Filter links who has rel="external", and attach an event to them. When clicked, it would make an ajax call with their href parameter, which you will query. The AJAX function just need to return true or false in order to allow users to be really redirected to their page, or prevent redirection in case of error.

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