Do URL shorteners pass anchor text?

[jotham27]

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.

[agapitoflores001]

I agree. This is very useful. It clarifies issues that relates to URL. Thumbs up.

[JohnnyGur]

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

[VirtualAssistantv]

Very helpful. Finally, some pf the questions I've been thinking about are now answered. Thanks!

[hostroute]

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).

[calebtheredwood]

Thank you for asking/answering this question. I've been wondering about that for quite a while now.

[crashxxx]

I really didn't know that it was very useful video thank you Matt..

[elderajwilcox]

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!

[termspec]

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.

[termspec]

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.

[xymind]

thnks a lot ! :D

[sithburns]

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.

[BootCampFX]

Thank you Matt!

[BehindBen]

I don't really have a question, but I wanna hear you talk about Microformats.. so I guess I should formulate a question: Is google going to invest more resources in microformats and will these rich snippets help your ranking position?

[fize4ever]

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

[billhartzer]

Just to reiterate, most well-behaved URL shorteners will pass PR and anchor text.

[harounkola]

Short and sweet and makes sense

[m0r1arty]

Greg, I think perhaps you are being asked if a URL redirect's name (or full address) is being used by Google for ranking, for example;yadaayadaa/bestSEOsite­ would that affect the ranking of 'A' particular site? (NB: I made that link up - feel free to change it)

[rosencrantzWoW]

@m0r1arty That wouldn't be anchor text, unless the url is the anchor text. In which case, yes it's anchor text so it gets passed along.

[jaqp95]

2nd :D

[AcidRaZor]

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[jaqp95]

@AcidRaZor haha yea right u search videos and hate comments u dont even have to read. Respect 4 u!

[Y4lt]

Thanks