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Is short url seo friendly ? - john - 06-05-2014 09:13 PM
I have made short url for my website. I just want to know that wether short url is seo friendly or not. Is there any good effect of short url for business site ?
- Jake - 06-05-2014 09:19 PM
I think it is a bad idea, such links do more for the ranking of the link service site.
Get a shorter suitable domain name and 301 redirect it to your main site, search engines credit you for redirected link juice.
- Nixon - 06-05-2014 09:36 PM
Shorten URLs will be used especially at the Social Media sites to share the web pages and interesting links. People are spending more hours and hours in front of Facebook, Twitter, Crowd-booster 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.
Basically the work of shorten URLs is that it will redirect to destination URLs. We need to only find out whether these re-directions are permanent (301) or temporary (302). We have several free tools on the web to check it. Yes, URL Shorten Services are using permanent 301 redirection which is search engine friendly.