Are Shorten URLs SEO friendly?

Shorten URLs SEO Friendly

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 example for better understanding.

Example:

Checked link: http://bit.ly/fZzYtX

Type of Redirect: 301 Moved

Redirected to: http://search-engine-optimization-tip.blogspot.com/2011/02/change-blogger-title-tags.html


You can check out the redirection from here: http://www.internetofficer.com/seo-tool/redirect-check/

Conclusion:  Shorten URLs are permanent redirected & they are search engine friendly as well.

Google Farmer Update – How much damage it can do?

This article on the most recent change to Google’s algorithm, which impacts on websites appear in the organic search.  The article says that although Google makes more than 500 changes a year, this change will definitely be noticed.

Last week Google has made the biggest change in its search algorithm. It affected many websites that depend on Google to drive majority of their traffic. This major change is done to rank quality content higher in Google search results. Particularly pulling down the sites, which have low quality / less original content and are of no use to users. The effect is that users will find sites which wrote the original content. Google says in a blog post on Thursday that these tweaks in the algorithm will affect 12% of its search results.

People give funny names to Google’s algorithm update. Be it “Jagger update” or “Hilltop update” This is called the Google “Farmer Update”. Do you know who gives names to Google algorithm updates? Many people in search marketing world don’t know how Google updates get their names. It all started in 2003 from Webmaster World.

Change Blogger Title Tags

Remove the name of your blog from the page title of your posts by swapping blogger titles for better search engine (SEO) implementation and displaying post name instead of blog name. It will helps to increase yours traffic through search engines. Only you need to change yours Blogger title tag html code.

Blogger always adds your blog name to the page title of all your posts? This will sometime lead to decreasing of yours blog traffic or sometime not index in Google. This problem is suffer mainly by those who generally used long URL. So to solve this problem you have to change yours template code.