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This is brilliant. I hope it lasts :)
The more articles like this one will publicize it the less likely it will last. It's like hackers pointing out a vulnerability publicly. Usually they do it to make the site owner remove it.
Nice find, thanks for sharing it.
Google seems to be able to index most Klout pages, but since the real domain authority is generated by links to the homepage, and none of the profiles are accessible or connected through that node, my guess is that this (unfortunately) passes almost no value. But it can't hurt to throw it up. Thanks David.
Yeah, gotta side with Ross on this one. Nice to know it's possible, but I don't think it's going to be a difference maker in any link profile. Probably better for the referral traffic/awareness, if anything.
Thanks, Ross for your input on this. What you're saying makes sense. If anything, I guess it's another way for people to find and access content.
It wasnt exactly dummy proof. Make sure you add the HTTP:// before the URL. And you can only get 1 link in your profile, i tried for 2 but Klout didnt create the second link: http://klout.com/YoungbloodJoe
site:klout.com build a few links to your klout.com/username and get those indexed. I use pingfarm.com for smaller lists but the idea is to get it indexed then thats that. :)
Simple and easy linkbuilding. Gotta love it.
Great tip for a great link. Thanks for sharing!
Hey guys - only works with one link. If you attempt to post another it just displays plain text. FYI
Thanks all for adding your insights, I could have done a little better explaining exactly what to do. I got a little excited and published the post as soon as I could. So yeah, it only works with 1 link, you need to use the full http:// URL, and you need to deselect the 'use about text from Twitter' option and select the 'use this instead' option to make this work.
This will last about 3 more days...
Ryan Ricketts in the article pointed out that the link is not in the source code. I investigated a little further. He is correct. The source we see is JavaScript/AJAX powered and that link is not part of the main source code. Search engines would probably not be able to decipher it. However, the search engines see something different. We see a URL with a # in it, while the search engines pick up on without the # (we get redirected but spiders don't). Their version is in plain HTML and does include the link, sans nofollow. So, the search engines should pick up that link :-)
To be honest I'm disappointed to see such a post about "how to sneak in a followed link" gets 41 votes on Inbound. What's next? "The best dofollow blogs list"? Link building is not about finding loopholes on authority sites unless you do black hat SEO on an industrial level.