I am looking at setting up and running a directory, and I would like
to give the sites that are listed the link popularity they deserve.
Trouble is, the directory scripts I like all have click thru link
algo's for listings, e.g,

http://www.mydomain.com/cgi-bin/clickthru.cgi?link=http://www.targetdomain.com

Can Google's scripts see the www.targetdomain.com and give it link pop
from my directory?

Hi, 

It doesn't appear so. Using this query on Google:

://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&lr=&ie=ISO-8859-1&safe=off&q=inurl%3A%22link%3Dhttp%22

A number of listings came up which have that same setup on them. This
query found the links to the page, but the forwarding is not active.
So the cgi->to->other_url doesn't "pop" as you put it. See the one
titled
CountM v0.6 - Link Info showing link:
webinteraktiv.create-now.net/countm/
index.php?page=linkinfos&link=http:www.quellcodes.de
for the best example of this. 

Thanks, 

webadept-ga

I think the answer was "No", but the explanation given was difficult to understand.