Do-follow links from social media

[julie-getonthemap]

I am experimenting with some blogs and online communities for backlinks. The Moz bar shows this link as do-follow, but it has the internal redirecting link. My brain is frozen and I can't remember what it's called to look up how it affects SEO.  Can anyone enlighten me?

[Ria_]

Internal redirecting link?

As in, the backlink is followed but goes through a redirect to get to your page?

A 301 will still pass all link juice, minus a few drips in the process, to your website. But if the link goes to a redirect link, then the link juice will be from whatever authority that URL has rather than the URL of the page with your link.

e.g.

Profile > Redirect Link > Your page

So any link juice from the 301 will be from that middleman there (which might be of lower quality), rather than directly from the profile. It will also take a few crawls for Google to recognise your page as being the destination that should be "credited".

If it's a 302, then it won't pass any link juice.

[julie-getonthemap]

Thank you so much for your response Ria.  I kept checking and thought of "View Source" and discovered - no follow

They use an intermediary page

http://www.deviantart.com/users/outgoing?http://list.ly/napa/lists

and the source shouws...

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Just in case anyone else has this question.