Backlinks from Document Sharing Sites

ankur420420

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Hi

Do links from document sharing sites count as backlinks?

Sites such as scribd,docstoc,docufileshare

Do links from word documents,powerpoint presenations,PDF documents on sites such as these count as backlinks

thanks
Ankur

 

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yes they are count as backlinks

 

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ankur420420 said:

Thanks for the replies guys but do you have any specific urls as examples

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They do count; at least Google keeps track of them.
Test these queries on Google:

HTML:

link:harvard.edu +filetype:pdf
link:harvard.edu +filetype:ppt
link:harvard.edu +filetype:doc