do URL shorteners pass link juice?

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highl4nder

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• Sep 19, 2012

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Instead of using a long URL like http://www.blackhatworld.com/blackh...ewthread&f=00/newthread.php?do=newthread&f=00 can I just use my own URL shortening service and use the short URL when creating backlinks? The link that I'm trying to shorten doesn't have the same domain (i.e., the example link above will become http://swi7.ch/8gy) btw.

 

umerjutt00

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I don't think that it will pass link juice.

 

psytrance

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• #3

you are wrong.

umerjutt00 said:

I don't think that it will pass link juice.

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supaH

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This should answer it for you.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMkltd6dZzU

 

clyde

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• #5

Short answer: Yes.

 

gcleats

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Yes, It's possible..

 

jascoken

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Yes. But they need to be 'proper' 301's...

This article offers some useful insights:

http://searchengineland.com/analysis-which-url-shortening-service-should-you-use-17204

 

wpbacklinks

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So, which url shorteners do 301?

 

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styopchaval

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My answer is - YES!

 

jascoken

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wpbacklinks said:

So, which url shorteners do 301?

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Did you read the article above? It has a grid which shows which redirects use 301's.

You also need to consider a URL shortening service that is well established; you don't want to spend a year building shortened URL's and find they've closed up shop!

I generally stick to bit.ly; well established, well funded, and with good tracking features.

 

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Taibar

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• Oct 15, 2012

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Yeah Bit.ly does have great tracking analysis but I view them as far from stable. Clickbank links are often rendered useless and the fact that they have a .ly extension makes them far from safe. They use the same links often and stats are skewed as a result. Personally I use Ttwi.st . It's a premium URL shortener which costs $5 a month but it is designed for IM'ers, allows Clickbank links, has tracking and an API. Further developments are also coming.

 

zoomsixx

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• Nov 16, 2012

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I'm trying to find a good link shortener that does not pass link juice. I want to use it for forum sigs and other places I really don't need a bunch of sh*tty backlinks from. Preferably one that provides statistics. Any good ones?

 

cash202

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zoomsixx said:

I'm trying to find a good link shortener that does not pass link juice. I want to use it for forum sigs and other places I really don't need a bunch of sh*tty backlinks from. Preferably one that provides statistics. Any good ones?

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Can't you just block bots via robot.txt on your URL shortener domain?

 

zoomsixx

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• Nov 18, 2012

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That's what I ended up doing. Using my own domain and just having it do a redirect.