Link value of :"

[Stramark]

Very recently linkedin changed the way they link. The links in the profile are no longer "nofollow" the new links are like this:

<a href="[/redirect?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Estramark%2Enl%2F&urlhash=dWm-](view-source:http://www.linkedin.com/redirect?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Estramark%2Enl%2F&urlhash=dWm-)" target="_blank" title="New window will open" name="overviewsite">

(http://www.linkedin.com/redirect?url=http://www.stramark.nl/&urlhash=dWm-)

Question:

What impact does this redirect have for the linkvalue of a link from linkedin. ( it is better than nofollow but what is the impact of this redirect? what actually happens and is the value?

URL for the profile i mentioned it on.

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

[DonnieCooper]

Howdy Wouter,

Matt Cutts says some url shorteners do infact pass some value. I know Linkedin isn't using a shortener, but I suspect Google treats those similarly (from Linkedin). That said, Google knows Linkedin well, so they probably assign values to their links in a specific way, regardless of how Linkedin marks them up. That's my hunch and of course, I could be wrong. But with high profile social sites such as facebook, twitter, linkedin, etc... Google knows best about how to treat their massive amounts of outbound links. Just a thought.

Does this help Wouter?