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Page A has two links on it that both point to Page B.

Link 1 isn't no-follow, but Link 2 is.

Will Page A pass any juice to Page B?

Hi Paul,

Assuming you're checking through Open Site Explorer, the "Facebook Shares" count you're seeing is the number of times someone has posted a link to the domain on Facebook, not how many times people are sharing posts from the company's Facebook page. You may know this, but you mentioned "shares per post", which doesn't apply based on what's being measured here. If they're getting any shares of their posts you should be able to see a number count for on their page itself.

Try using Open Site Explorer's "Compare Link Metrics" tab to see exactly where your competitor's page has advantages of yours. Also check to see if more of your competitors links have exact-match or near-exact-match anchor text.

Hi Josh, are you looking at exact-match number of searches in Google's Keyword Tool, or broad-match?

I don't think you're being linked to spam, specifically. What you're seeing is the Feedburner page linking your post titles to feeds.feedburner.com/[whatever the guid of the post is] -- URLs of different feeds from different sites entirely.

I believe this is the problem referenced in the FeedBurner FAQ - http://www.google.com/support/feedburner/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=79014&topic=13190 - "Why don't my feed content item links work?"

In which case, the isPermalink attribute on the feed guids should be false. I'd post about this on the support forum for your CMS.

A few avenues to check out:

• Log into your feedburner account and make sure the feed it's processing is still your blog's actual feed.
• Under feedburner's "Troubleshootize" tab, check if there are any FeedMedic reports, and under Tips and Tools run the feed validity checks.
• Check and make sure the Feedburner URL shown in your account is the same one people are being directed to on the blog.
• Go to Google Webmaster Tools. Under Diagnostics, check and see if there are any malware reports.
• Run a malware scan on the site URL and the Feedburner URL through a tool like http://sitecheck.sucuri.net/scanner/

Can you provide us more information? Screenshots showing links and the URLs they direct you to?

Use Google Webmaster tools. Under Site Configuration > Crawler Access, there is a "Remove URL" tab that will allow you to request URLs be removed from Google's index.

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I'm aware redirected links won't provide as much benefit as direct links -- I'm looking purely at relevance benefits from the anchor text. Shortened URLs seem like a good case because it separates the on-site benefit of having the keyword in the URL from the off-site benefit of being linked to with a URL that has the keyword in it.

The question that really sums it up (editing the main question to reflect it) is: If http://boston.craigslist.org/jjj/... gets linked to through custom shortened URLs like http://bit.ly/Boston-Jobs, is it more likely to rank for the term "Boston Jobs" than if it received the same number of links using a non-custom shortened URL like http://bit.ly/ejq5uX9 ?

I'm curious about links that are just URLs (e.g. http://www.google.com/reader) or in a URL-like format (e.g. Google.com/Reader) vs links with plain-word anchor text (e.g. Google Reader).

If a link that is just a URL (or a partial URL) has keywords in it, do those keywords provide anchor text relevance benefits?

I'm particularly thinking about URL shorteners that provide customized links, and social media. Many web tools (twitter, blog comment systems) don't render HTML but will automatically link URLs. If http://boston.craigslist.org/jjj/ gets linked to through custom shortened URLs like http://bit.ly/Boston-Jobs, is it more likely to rank for the term "Boston Jobs" than if it received the same number of links using a non-custom shortened URL like http://bit.ly/ejq5uX9?

Ryan, thanks for responding, but I may have not been clear in my question. Your answer is about domain authority for the ultimate destination of the link; let's say http://bit.ly/xyz redirects to http://www.seomoz.org/q/are-url-shorteners-building-domain-authority-everytime-someone-uses-a-link-from-their-service

And let's say 20 people on tweet the http://bit.ly/xyz link, and the text of several of those tweets is reproduced (link included) on eight websites. Does http://bit.ly 's domain authority increase as a result of those 20 tweets and eight website links?

Hi Josh, are you looking at exact-match number of searches in Google's Keyword Tool, or broad-match?

Use Google Webmaster tools. Under Site Configuration > Crawler Access, there is a "Remove URL" tab that will allow you to request URLs be removed from Google's index.

Ryan, thanks for responding, but I may have not been clear in my question. Your answer is about domain authority for the ultimate destination of the link; let's say http://bit.ly/xyz redirects to http://www.seomoz.org/q/are-url-shorteners-building-domain-authority-everytime-someone-uses-a-link-from-their-service

And let's say 20 people on tweet the http://bit.ly/xyz link, and the text of several of those tweets is reproduced (link included) on eight websites. Does http://bit.ly 's domain authority increase as a result of those 20 tweets and eight website links?

I don't think you're being linked to spam, specifically. What you're seeing is the Feedburner page linking your post titles to feeds.feedburner.com/[whatever the guid of the post is] -- URLs of different feeds from different sites entirely.

I believe this is the problem referenced in the FeedBurner FAQ - http://www.google.com/support/feedburner/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=79014&topic=13190 - "Why don't my feed content item links work?"

In which case, the isPermalink attribute on the feed guids should be false. I'd post about this on the support forum for your CMS.