Does this link count as a backlink to a SE?
 

Does a link on a toplist like the url below count as a backlink to SE's?

yourdomain.com/cgi-bin/at3/out.cgi?id=79&trade=http://www.adomain.com/

Not likely... needs to be hardlinked or javascripted.

Which is why I am slowly changing over all my AT3 installs into ZERO installs.

Thanks for the reply. You mean you are changing to no skim sites?

I'd say no

nopester

Some sites I build are no skim and some others are skim, but has javascript on the onclick() so the search engine sees a hardlink, but when you click, it still skimmed and tracked. :2 cents:

No. Though google is getting cleverer at crawling links still a no.