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The project links are rel="nofollow", though. There really is no benefit to spamming it.

I thought that at first too, but then I picked apart the link. They are javascript redirects to another site that then forwards the traffic on to a referal system for another site. Also, I'm not totally sure every search engine completely honors rel='nofollow'

That doesn't prevent the pages themselves from ranking.

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