The cgi-bin thing before the URL

[Mr. Blue]

Originally Posted by Star Man

Some TGP's I noticed have URL's on their sites like thenameoftheirsite.com/cgi-bin/at3/out.cgi?s=80&u= followed by whatever outgoing URL they link to. What's that for? Does google actually consider that an internal link or something?

That's the way their trade script works. The url that you posed is for Arrow Trade Script. TGPs will trade traffic with partners in their network the /cgi-bin/at3, etc, just handles how the traffic gets distributed.

The example you posted has out.cgi?s=80, that means that anytime a surfer clicks on a gallery link 80% of the time they'll see the gallery and the other 20% of the time they'll be sent to one of the trading partner sites.