is tiny url useful to increase PR ?

[jacks smith]

Hello friends,
is tiny URL helpful to increase pr and back links of original URL or it will increase pr and back links for self.

[J from Michigan]

I thought I had heard not to use it... but hopefully someone will confirm (or deny) it.

[Jim Gillum]

Read somewhere awhile back that you gain nothing rank-wise by using tiny-URL....
Think it had something to do with the spiders not following those links...
(Not 100% sure...just in the back of my mind)....

[stevemarino]

I recall seeing link shorteners (maybe tinyurl, maybe something else) coming up on Alexa backlink reports. However, Alexa is pretty much irrelevant. I'm pretty sure, based on logic alone, that google won't pay any attention to it since it's so easy to spend all day making shortened URLs to your site to get a free (and easy) backlink.

[andrewsegawa]

I have read from some forum that it is actually useless, it is better to use the original url

[HTMLBasicTutor]

You want one that does a 301 redirect to the real url.
URL Shorteners With 301 Redirects

How does bit.ly work?
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.

How does bit.ly work?

[kumartinku]

As my experience tiny URL is not helpful to increase pr and back links...

[joelchrist]

Tiny url is used because of character restriction, There is nothing benefit of using it.

[sfossy]

That is a redirected link and will have no effect in seo, those are not counted as backlinks.

[highseo]

If they use 301 redirect, the value of these shorted URLs will be juiced to your domain and in other cases i think they can't help your ranking.

[hutsell6]

The Only advantage of link shortners is nothing but shortening links..thats all..nothing related to PR and any other issues..

[kenaz]

for your site to have a good PR, you must have a large URL, so It means for me short back links are useless.

[jayrudalf]

Tiny URL has nothing benefit for your site ranking or PR or backlinks. It is used only because some sites not allowed big URLs.

[robmac]

no shortening service helps PR, they are okay to mask profile indexing for RSS submissions but thats it. oh and twitter

[Ronit roy]

I don't think that tiny URL is useful for high PR rather it helps in remembering the domain name so that the people can learn it easily.

[unclesam112]

i think it's not but it can help you in promotion of your site in microblogging sites like twitter

[reborn]

A shorten URL is a redirect link, it's function just to short your url for 140 character box of social media. Maybe give your traffic but don't influence to your PR directly.

[Jim Gillum]

Originally Posted by Ronit roy

I don't think that tiny URL is useful for high PR rather it helps in remembering the domain name so that the people can learn it easily.

Since all the "tiny" URLs are tiny.......you would remember "tiny"....but which one?

[ponsankari]

Tiny url is a redirect link.It has been told that tiny url doesnot list the true url and can be used by the spammers and may even link to unexpected sites. But it is usually recommended to anyone who shares links on the major social networking sites like twitter and so on..

[Ronit roy]

Tiny url may be spammed by some spammers in misuse, so it is advisable to always use is carefully.