Linked in public profiles

[VanadiumInteractive]

It seems that linked in is doing some type of redirect on their links, that block them from passing value to the connected site.

Is there anyway to get link value out of public LinkedIn profiles, or did they shut that down?

[HandsomeWeb]

What makes you say this?

In my LinkedIn profile, I see this code in the link to my website:

target="_blank" title="New window will open">HandsomeWeb

Because that automatically redirects, and there is no "nofollow", it should work.

[VanadiumInteractive]

One of the tools I use to manage links is Caphyon - "Advanced Link Manger", that tool is report the link as a "NoFollow".  I also noticed that LinkedIn is not coming up in the data provided for "Open Site Explorer" in none of the sites that I manage (site that i have Public Link in LinkedIn setup).

Do you feel that LinkedIn is passing Link Juice to your site?

Here is one of the profiles that should be working

http://www.linkedin.com/in/vanadiumtech

I'm not seeing a connection in Webmaster tools for this either.

[HandsomeWeb]

OK, I learned something today.

I looked closely.  Linked in is using a temporary redirect, that apparently results in the same as a nofollow.