Will link juice follow through this type of link?

Discussion in 'Link Development' started by speedguy, Sep 28, 2009.

  1. #1
    I have noticed that some bookmarking sites have a URL like:

    http://www.socialsite.com/out.php?url=http://mysite.com


    The link is the only do follow link and clicking on that link takes you to mysite.

    My question is: Will link juice flow this just as if its a normal link or not?
     
    speedguy, Sep 28, 2009 IP
  2. selectsplat

    selectsplat Well-Known Member

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    No, it will not.
     
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  3. goliath

    goliath Active Member

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    It's up to them, actually.

    If they stop the user at a page that uses javascript or a meta-redirect than it will stop the "link juice".

    If they use a language like PHP to capture the request, log their stats, and return a proper redirection header then most 'bots and search engines will just see it as a lilnk to your site.

    So the site has the choice, just like choosing follow or no follow.
     
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    Most of the time when sites send the user to a local "redirector" page like the one you described above that logs click-thrus and forwards them to the target URL, the redirector page or the directory where it lives is disallowed via a robots.txt entry in which case it will NOT pass link juice.
     
    Canonical, Sep 28, 2009 IP