Can a URL shortener pass PR ?

[jaffstar]

If you use a secondary URL that you own for shortening URL'S (especially for twitter), can it pass PR back to your site?

If someone posts a link on a site to:

abc.short/124 which redirects to www.domain.com/title/name-description-date, surely if this is 301'ed you would still get PR from the short URL ?

[pageoneresults]

According to Google, yes. It's treated like any other 301.

Do URL Shorteners Pass Anchor Text?
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[jaffstar]

Nice find :) If you receive a link from twitter it will be no-followed but if someone shares that link on a blog it will receive PR.

[jaffstar]

Nice find :) If you receive a link from twitter it will be no-followed but if someone shares that link on a blog it will receive PR.

[DiscountPandit]

Yes. Search engines passes page rank to shorten url as they used 301 redirection to divert the traffic.

[batface]

Not all URL shorteners use 301 redirects, some use 302 redirects.

[Munster]

Any idea which ones use 301's and which use 302's?

[SEOPunk]

@jaffstar I agree with you. Links from twitter are no follow and won't give any pr benefit but links from blogs(shortened links) will still benefit for pr.