# Does counting clicks on a tracking file hurts SEO?

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**Created:** [February 4, 2009, 8:40pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/does-counting-clicks-on-a-tracking-file-hurts-seo/281094 "2009-02-04T20:40:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![imagined](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/a87d85/32.png) [@imagined](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/imagined)\
**Post date:** [February 4, 2009, 8:40pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/does-counting-clicks-on-a-tracking-file-hurts-seo/281094/1 "2009-02-04T20:40:36Z")

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I was reading this article: [http://lowendmac.com/tech/php11.html](http://lowendmac.com/tech/php11.html)

It tells you that when someone clicks your link, it should take them to a tracking page that will record the click by updating a MySQL database and then redirect using header.

something like…

click -\> track.php update mysql, header(‘location: [www.domain.com/link.html](http://www.domain.com/link.html)’)

if you really want search engines to list your link, wouldn’t linking to a track page hurt your SEO?