As webmasters are well aware.. Although a URL or link may not be indexed it still passes and flows link juice. There is a huge difference between search engines indexing a piece of content and counting the links it sees in the content. However a well indexed and well written piece of content is likely to pass a lot more power and authority then a non indexed piece of content.
As you have probably noticed AR for quite a while now has been building links into published articles for monthly members.... read more »