Do URL shorteners pass anchor text?

Since Google is now using Twitter and Facebook links as ranking symbols, will custom URL shortners be looked at as providing anchor text on the links? Chris Burns, Florida




Russian subtitles provided by Mike Shakin.

[GeoffLord]

Thanks for answering that perplexing question for me. I had been asked exactly the same question a few days ago by one of my clients and I could not give him a clear answer. now we have the true answer and are greatful for the simple and sensible answer.

[fizeever]

Matt is ever so scary when he's gradually evilly smiling while the video fades to white.

[GeoffLord]

Thanks for answering that perplexing question for me. I had been asked exactly the same wuestion a few days ago by one of my clients and I could not give him a clear answer. now we have the true answer and are greatful for the simple and sensible answer.

[eversparkinteractive]

URL shorteners are in such common use today. It's good to know that the anchor text, etc is passed on with the link.

[j]

Thanks for all your help Matt, I really appreciate you giving the guidance.

[AJWilcox]

Matt, you mentioned anchor text through the URL shortners, but what anchor text are you going to get from a bit.ly url? Is it safe to say that GG looks at the remainder of the tweet for keyword signals?

Thanks!

[ChristopherBurns]

Thanks for answering my question Matt... question was asked to me by a client.. if I get a custom URL shortener for my biz.. will the custom text count as anchor text on my links?

So if they setup widget.ly... can they get Google to count widget as anchor text on the original link being shared.

[luke-zcyi]

"we might be ablet to find out about those links some other way, through data feed or something like that" - I wonder what data feeds google works with from twitter

[GordonHudson]

The phrase "data feed" is rather intriguing. Does he mean a twitter RSS feed? Or maybe something like blogger where I have seen my pages in the index before Googlebot has visited the page (ergo, they must be crawling my RSS feed).

[JothamMcCauley]

I type in a question and Matt is waiting there smiling with a video titled almost verbatim what I asked. Scary. Scary good. and scary.

[nhimbeosohai]

Can I use the same URL shorteners for all of my backlinks? Can Penguin (or other algorithm) kill me with repeated URL shorteners?

[sanmed]

it was so amaze tricks ! much better !

[AminHashemy]

is that mean shorteners urls not good?just nod bad?