Weight of Shortened URLS vs. Regular

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Weight of Shortened URLS vs. Regular

naitsirch26

7:04 am on Sep 10, 2009 (gmt 0)

My question is in regards to URL shortening services. Do the search engines give the same weight to shortened URLS vs the regular, longer version?

For example:

[sitenamehere.com...]

[shortenedurl.com...]

OR - is this giving the link juice to that URL shortening service?

Thank you.

phranque

5:29 am on Sep 21, 2009 (gmt 0)

welcome to WebmasterWorld [webmasterworld.com], naitsirch26!

if the url shortening service has properly implemented a 301 Moved Permanently response to redirect to the "regular" url, the benefit should go to the "regular" url.