Do Share buttons take LinkJuice?
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Hi,
I'm using AddThis sharing on my site.
The implementation is by embedding a href's all over the site.
Do these buttons take my LinkJuice?
Thanks
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I think you are correct.
Here are the AddThis buttons script samples (no href):
<a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a> <a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a>
<a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a>
<a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a>
<a class="addthis_button_compact"></a>
<a class="addthis_counter addthis_bubble_style"></a>Here are the ShareThis buttons which are used by SEOMoz on blog posts (without <a>):</a>
<a>Just in case, I think I will go with ShareThis from now on...
Still looking for more ideas if anyone has...</a>
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Do these buttons take my LinkJuice?
I would say yes.
Web pages present many links within javascript and other code. Social media links, Verisign SSL, TRUSTe and many other widgets which link to external sites are often presented in this manner. There are many social links which will be implement in a manner to simply present the link in HTML. The standard BBB link works in this manner as well.
The SEOmoz toolbar only recognizes the html links. If you present a link in javascript, the SEOmoz toolbar will not see the link. I am confident Google is much more sophisticated and can see and understand these links and adjust appropriately.
I do not know with 100% certainty but that is the best information I know.
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I believe the links are placed with a javascript on page ready, so in that case 'no'. You have to put anchor-tags on your website, but there is no href attribute set to them, so there isnt an actual link.
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