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"Do all URLs pass PageRank?  No.  Many affiliate URLs go through several redirects in order to get to the destination page.  For example, you sell a product and start an affiliate program.  People who sign up on the affiliate program want to do their tracking, where you want to do your own tracking.So when they put a link on their Web site, they might use a URL such as http://www.affiliatesite.com/affiliate.php?referralid=232, which then might get passed through a 3rd party affiliate tracking system, so the URL changes to www.thirdpartyaffiliatetracking.com/affiliate.asp?affiliateid=234&amp;referrurl=5832.  Now you want to track the click coming in and if there is a sale, so you set up your own URL you asked them to link to, such as www.mysite.com/affiliate.jsp?affiliateid=232.So the chances of PageRank being distributed to the main site (i.e. www.mysite.com) is unlikely.  There are too many redirects."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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