I\’m not the only one miffed about Google\’s use of the pathetic DMOZ descriptions. Take a look at http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/feedback-webspam/ and you\’ll find a ton of posts pleading for the practice to stop. Some have gone as far as trying to remove their DMOZ listings from the directory, but as we all know, getting OUT of DMOZ is even harder than getting in. Most requests fall into a black hole.

Well, aside from ditching Commission Junction altogether, it appears backlinks are not among the benefits CJ is willing to share.

But, I’m curious to know if by some miracle, I could convice CJ to add my own “tracking” image to affiliate code pointing back to a site. This “tracking” code would include a transparent image sitting on my domain. This would provide a spiderable connection to my domain. Granted, it would point to an image, but I’m curious to know if it would pull in any backlink strength for the domain as a whole.

Something like:

< a href=\"http://www.anrdoezrs.net/click-123456-8152123\" >< img src=http://www.mydomaincom/images/myimage.gif\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" >< /a >

Hey, just curious.

note - pardon all of the extraneous slashes above, Wordpress threw them in