Short URL helpful for SEO ??

[NetBihar]

I am using short or tiny urls to promote my website. Will that help in improving search engine rankings and good traffic to my website?

[patco]

Short Urls will NOT help you in your ranking. You'd better use your own domain name and build backlinks to it ... Just a simple reason: "What if this "short url" got deleted?" // You will lose ALL your potentional visitors

[jones_woolsey]

Originally Posted by patco

Short Urls will NOT help you in your ranking. You'd better use your own domain name and build backlinks to it ... Just a simple reason: "What if this "short url" got deleted?" // You will lose ALL your potentional visitors

yar , I think so . short urls are no use for ranking. and you should unified use only one domain name so that the ranking will be concentrated.

[HostSurfUK]

Well depending on where you promote your link it might not matter. Places like twitter is mainly were short urls should be used.

[GoogleGangster]

Short URLS won't make a difference with organic search engine rankings. Exact match domains do help though.

The only use for shorter URLS wouldbe for creating a memorable website. And maybe for affiliate marketing or something, so people can easily remember the website and type it in and it's a bit easier to copy paste that way.

[HTMLBasicTutor]

It depends on which url shortener you use. Some, like bit.ly, use a 301 permanent redirect in the background.

patco did have a point though. Some day your chosen url shortener could cease to exist.

You may find this video done by Matt Cutts (Google Spam Dept) helpful:

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[Tiggerito]

short urls normally use a 301 redirect to go to the true destination. This means any links via the short url will not quite give you the full PageRank credit that a direct link will give you.

I'd suggest you avoid short urls for your own link building and leave their use for offline marketing, social media linking and the odd case where you want to shrink down tracking or affiliate parameters.

[NetBihar]

I am using tiny.url, bil.ty and some other short url services to get some anonymous users to visit our website. Will that be effective for generate traffic to our website? Also, is that SEO compatible?

[indusharma]

I also want to suggest you that you should use original url's for seo rather than short-url .

[Tiggerito]

Originally Posted by NetBihar

I am using tiny.url, bil.ty and some other short url services to get some anonymous users to visit our website. Will that be effective for generate traffic to our website? Also, is that SEO compatible?

May I ask how you make the users anonymous?

[rushpcb]

But i think short url is just use in twitter but don;t try to make backlinks from short url.. try to use your primary url of site for backlink.

[dferrell]

Having a short URL is great. But, if you are making niche sites and planning on using organic search engine traffic as your main source of attracting visitors than you'd be better off with an EMD.

[Cricket]

Originally Posted by Tiggerito

short urls normally use a 301 redirect to go to the true destination. This means any links via the short url will not quite give you the full PageRank credit that a direct link will give you.

I'd suggest you avoid short urls for your own link building and leave their use for offline marketing, social media linking and the odd case where you want to shrink down tracking or affiliate parameters.

I fully agree with Tiggerito in this case. If you have ever redirected a domain you likely noticed that the new site did not pick up where the old one left on in terms of PR and occasionally in the SERPS.

[beegoes]

I think still better use yourdomainname/postname

[Rajnish357]

Short and Clear URLs better for both User and Search Engines

[shreevenkatesh]

Short URL is useful in micro blogging and so useful for check referral traffic in analytic. but disadvantage is that if we use more short url so it can damage link popularity.

[anandsapple]

No , Short URL's are of no use for rankings, they are just for making Long URL short, for better rankings , you should try to use your keywords instead of short URL or your domain if keyword is not possible to use.

Your Link juice value would be divided if we will use short URL , because they would be treated as referral URL.

[mit]

I never ever realized that short URLs has any impact on search engine rankings but yes! they are useful in terms of Social Media Engagement.

[Zita]

Is it so??? I was keep on using short urls in twitter thinking my ranking will improve?? So, what is the benefits sharing information in twitter?? It automatically shortens our URL's

[david9]

Rajnish357,

Would you explain how shorten url better for user & search engine?

Do you feel that user easily remember bit.ly/3ey7 than xyz.com/web-design?

and how for search engine?