301 PHP redirects and backlinks

[Optimizer]

Google sees 301 PHP header redirects as backlinks now, since not so long ago.

If you use them....check the backlinks of your linkparters and change your script.

PS....dont use rel=nofollow as you still give link juice away....
Google changed this part too..

regards,
Optimizer

[Fridaynite]

Irgendwie bin ich heute noch nicht wach genug. Kannst Du das genauer erklären?

[SloMo]

301 has been the best way to redirect URLs and maintain links-juice for a long time. Would you mind explaining what's your issue?

However, 301 is not PHP specific, it's HTTP.

[Optimizer]

Lets say you want to link to someone but dont wanna give link juice away.

Google says,....use a rel=nofollow tag in the outgoing link to prevent link juice away...your saying to google...i dont trust this link.

But now if you do....you give link juice away....just see here for more info.
https://www.seoassur.com/2009/08/avoid- ... -elements/

I did never use a nofollow tag....but use a redirect script instead.
this was a simple php redirect like this.

<?php
header("Location: https://www.linkedsite.com");
?>

But not so long ago...google shows now a backlink given over this script to some of the sites i link to.... meaning link juice wil flow from me to them.

I now changed it to a good old javascript in the page with a noindex, nofollow inside the html head.

I know many people will use the header tag in php....but be aware that google is now following them.

Also....google does now read javascript as text.....and can read and follow links which are written in full inside the javascript file....be warned to verify this as you might loose a lot link juice.

Optimizer...
BTW...now living in Manila, Philippines
where labor is cheap.....

[mano_negra]

zuerst dachte ich ja, da hat irgendwer einen uralt-thread ausgegraben.
aber nein, echte "breaking news"!

[luzie]

... google shows now a backlink given over this script to some of the sites i link to.... meaning link juice wil flow from me to them.

I wouldn't be too sure about that, just because they're showing your redirect as a link now, doesn't necessarily mean pagerank is passed through. I'd need to see other proof of it before I could believe that.

[SloMo]

Was ist jetzt daran neu, dass HTTP-Redirects PageRank bzw. Link-Juice weiterleiten? Für Sculpting haben Redirects dieser Form noch nie funktioniert. Jedenfalls nicht ohne nofollow, robots.txt oder ähnlichem.

Mal ganz abgesehen davon, dass Googles Linkanzeige wirklich absolut keine Aussagekraft hat.

[mano_negra]

slomo: genau.

das einzige was neu ist, dass die redirects vermehrt in der linkabfrage auftauchen.

[SloMo]

Oh, okay...

[Optimizer]

I wouldn't be too sure about that, just because they're showing your redirect as a link now, doesn't necessarily mean pagerank is passed through. I'd need to see other proof of it before I could believe that.

Well....i am not gone wait untill that happends because i dont wanna see those backlinks for linkpartners anyway...so i changed the script into javascript. (with no full url in it)

For the one rel=nofollow tag users....read this too..
https://www.mattcutts.com/blog/pagerank-sculpting/