[ask] - Short URLs and SEO

lancis

Elite Member

Jul 31, 2010

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• Aug 10, 2010

• #1

Dear Blackhatters,

I was wondering how URL shortening services such as TinyURL are affecting your SEO efforts. Are the links as powerful as direct links? Less powerful? Or are there any nuances I should be aware of when using these?

 

insider

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Jul 5, 2009

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• Aug 10, 2010

• #2

If it's a 301 redirect it's almost as powerful (a bit of the link juice is lost during the redirect), if it's some other stuff like a 302 or 307, then it's useless.

Tinyurl is a 301 if I'm not mistaken.

 

kez1000

Supreme Member

Jul 24, 2009

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• Aug 13, 2010

• #3

thanks for that...very interesting

 

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zeefire00

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Mar 31, 2010

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• Aug 13, 2010

• #4

does anyone know if bit.ly is 301?

 

sousen

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Oct 16, 2008

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• Aug 14, 2010

• #5

AsI learn bit.ly has not seo value for 301.If I wrong please correct me

 

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wickedpie

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• Aug 14, 2010

• #6

zeefire00 said:

does anyone know if bit.ly is 301?

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sousen said:

AsI learn bit.ly has not seo value for 301.If I wrong please correct me

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bit.ly uses 301 redirect

http://bit.ly/a/help

bit.ly works by issuing a "301 redirect": a technique for making a webpage available under many URLs. When you shorten a link with bit.ly, you are redirecting a click from bit.ly to the destination URL. A 301 redirect is the most efficient and search engine-friendly method for webpage redirection, and is what bit.ly uses. Because bit.ly doesn?t re-use or modify links, we consider our redirects to be permanent.

 

moonswamp

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• Aug 19, 2010

• #7

thanks wick.

your post is very useful for me, cos my URL is now in Akemist(forgot how to spell) blacklist and wondering how to solve it

since bit.ly is 301, so I can use this service to short my URL and post comments again!!!