Shorten URLs will be used especially at Social Media sites to share web pages and interesting links. People are spending hours and hours in front of Facebook, Twitter etc, so URL Shortener services are increasing day by day. Most of people have this question that whether these short URLs are SEO friendly or not.
Usually shorten URLs will redirect to destination URLs. We need to find out whether these redirections are permanent (301) or temporary (302). We have few free tools on the web to check it. Yes, URL Shorten Services are using permanent 301 redirection which is search engine friendly. Please have a look at the following screenshot and video for better understanding.
Mattcutts explaining the same in the following video:
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ReplyDeleteCould you please let me know from where to get those tools to check the redirects.
ReplyDeleteI Agree. shorten URLs will help in Social Media websites. Great Article!
ReplyDelete@Ranjit Plenty of tools available online. Here is the tool which i use http://www.internetofficer.com/seo-tool/redirect-check/
ReplyDeleteThat is great post for seo. It's very nice. Thanks for shearing your ideas.
ReplyDeleteShorten URL is no problem in SEO but terms of security it is too risky especially the malicious ware may harm to your computer.
ReplyDeleteno doubt that shorten url's help in social media sites like as twitter, facebook and also thanks for providing url to check redirects.
ReplyDeletei have one more doubt.. I have used this url shorter for creating forum signature..
ReplyDeleteWe can use this url shorter for form or not.. it is effective or not
Thanks Sankar for the link of checking the redirection.
ReplyDeleteYa definitely ,It's true that shorten URLs helps a lot in social media websites.
ReplyDelete@benivolent We can use URL shortens for forum signatures too.
ReplyDeleteDefinitely its a very useful update.
ReplyDeleteGood post.. thanks for sharing your information with the help of video.
ReplyDeleteHey I am agree ......
ReplyDeletei want to know more about 301 permanent redirection.
ReplyDeleteYes,Indeed ......its absolutely works
ReplyDeleteBut Dear what do google like it? and what is redirections are permanent (301) or temporary (302)please describe this words....
ReplyDeleteYeah Use of shorten URLs are increasing day by day.As per google statistics and SEO point of view, the click rate on long urls is very less in SERPS. It is very hard to write or to remember long URL for a common user.
ReplyDeleteNice post about shorten url. I also have some questions about this but after reading this post most of questions are cleared.
ReplyDeleteAll converters are not necessarily having the 301 redirects, they some time have 302 & 303, so be careful while choosing all such stuffs
ReplyDeleteReally that one is very tremendous explanation i am 100% agree.shorten url help to social media site. thank u for u r sharing a valuable topic...
ReplyDeleteThis is right, there's no point of passing anchor text value when your using short urls. Don't even expect to get a dofollow link juice from them.
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