Will this link count?

[philiporchardphiliporchard is verified member.]

Hi,

A business has linked to us from their website:

mascotsuk dot com

(it's a very small icon on the right hand side, halfway down on the home page)

Will this link actually add any juice - seems an odd way of linking.

Thanks, Phil

 

[Ashton]

Woah that site is keyword stuffed, made of flash and generally pretty nasty, the link is embedded in the flash and will probably pass juice. I am no SEO guru though

 

[peter_w]

The cached text version of the site (http://webcache.googleusercontent.c...suk.com/+site:www.mascotsuk.com&hl=en&strip=1) would suggest not, but we know Google do read SWF/Flash files and index links.

http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=72746

"Additionally, Googlebot can also discover URLs in SWF files (for example, links to other pages on your site) and follow those links."

The text cache version of the site does show other links, however, just not the Bedford link... which obviously isn't a positive sign.

 

[philiporchardphiliporchard is verified member.]

Thanks for getting back to me.

Interesting that Google can follow flash - fingers crossed it may pass on some juice!

 

[bensdbensd is verified member.]

Is the link not in the cache because it is new and google hasn't indexed the site since the link went up?

 

[retired_member13]

As far as I'm aware Google can read Flash links but they pass no pagerank (ie no link "juice"). They and Javascript links are often used to "sculp" pagerank within sites for this reason.

Saying that, even nofollows or the equiv will help you to build up a link profile so although it's of limited direct benefit it's still a nice to have in the end. Incidentally, the jury is still out as to whether nofollow links are actually beneficial, some say yes, some say no, but I'd have thought that a link from somewhere like a high profile but nofollow Wikipedia page would still have to help.

 

[peter_w]

Slightly OT but nofollow links make up any "natural" footprint, and therefore are definitely worthwhile - even if they don't (arguably) directly pass PageRank juice.

 

[bensdbensd is verified member.]

You link will be counted as link but the link have done here that will be counted but it is giving you traffic.

This link will be counted but this will not be stored against specific keywords.because there is no anchor text.

Why hasn't this idiot been banned yet?