With a custom domain for your link shortener, people will see that you are not spamming and they will be more likely to click on your custom domain shortened link than a generic shortened link. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better.
The key to protecting your SEO, then, is to choose a link shortening service that uses a 301 redirect. As a result, long URLs must be copied-and-pasted for reliability. Dead simple to manage multiple custom domains and multiple clients from a single account Consistent branding impression. Undo Undo Shorten links ! @sqrl_in 18 Mar 2010 More Google entering the 'smart TV' market, reports say – SciTechBlog - CNN.com Blogs - Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better.
This website has been known to distribute spyware." TinyURL countered this problem by offering an option to view a link's destination before using a shortened URL. Launch and use Now that you're all set up, you're ready to use your new URL shortener. In this example we have used Twitter. utm_medium parameter is used to describe what kind of medium we have used, in this example we have used a Tweet. utm_campaign parameter to define a campaign name, slogan, promo code, etc. utm_term parameter is used to identify paid search keywords. utm_content You could be using a variety of content types in a campaign, this element allows you to differentiate among them. When a request is received for a shorthand link, the registry database is searched for an associated URL.
Technically not part of any protocol, it is simply a convention standing for world wide web. URLs encoded in two-dimensional barcodes such as QR code are often shortened by a URL shortener in order to reduce the printed area of the code, or allow printing at lower density in order to improve scanning reliability. The SEO issue isn’t an issue, according to Google’s Matt Cutts.
The Reddit community strongly discourages – and in some subreddits, outright bans – URL shortening services for link submissions, because they disguise the origin domain name and whether the link has previously been submitted to Reddit, and there are few or no legitimate reasons to use link shorteners for Reddit link submissions.[29] [edit] Sites such as Adf.ly use a number of advertising techniques, including interstitial advertising, to generate revenue. Link farms were created and sold by shysters, and website owners fell for these deals and bought these links. As a result, long URLs must be copied-and-pasted for reliability. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. The great thing is now you can promote your own domain in the tweets. You rely on this provider to keep your link viable into the future. The service accepts notifications of file and volume moves from the tracking service on a computer, and allows the distributed link tracking client to query the current location of a link source. It is a legitimate concern that many existing URL shortening services may not have a sustainable business model in the long term.[12] In late 2009, the Internet Archive started the "301 Works" projects,[25] together with twenty collaborating companies (initially), whose short URLs will be preserved by the project.[12] The URL shortening service ur1.ca provides its entire database as a file download, so if its website stops working, other websites may be able to provide ways to correct broken links to URLs shortened with its service.