Comments on: URL Shorteners: Which Shortening Service Should You Use? http://searchengineland.com/analysis-which-url-shortening-service-should-you-use-17204 Search Engine Land: Must Read News About Search Marketing & Search Engines Mon, 23 Nov 2009 05:39:12 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: sergiomcfly http://searchengineland.com/analysis-which-url-shortening-service-should-you-use-17204/comment-page-1#comment-5640 sergiomcfly Tue, 26 May 2009 20:12:50 +0000 http://searchengineland.com/?p=17204#comment-5640 You forgot to make a table with the smallest one's like http://o.ly You forgot to make a table with the smallest one’s like http://o.ly

]]> By: mayank http://searchengineland.com/analysis-which-url-shortening-service-should-you-use-17204/comment-page-1#comment-5459 mayank Tue, 05 May 2009 04:59:08 +0000 http://searchengineland.com/?p=17204#comment-5459 A very detailed analysis of the services Dany. It helped me understand the various services (good and bad) that are being offered by these guys. It helped me with some url de-referencing that I am doing on a small project. It prompted me to create a blog post of my own detailing the problems faced while using these services. <a href="http://zebugroup.com/blog/2009/04/a-call-for-responsible-url-shortening-services-russ/" rel="nofollow">A Call for Responsible URL Shortening Services</a> A very detailed analysis of the services Dany. It helped me understand the various services (good and bad) that are being offered by these guys. It helped me with some url de-referencing that I am doing on a small project. It prompted me to create a blog post of my own detailing the problems faced while using these services. A Call for Responsible URL Shortening Services

]]> By: tomeglenn http://searchengineland.com/analysis-which-url-shortening-service-should-you-use-17204/comment-page-1#comment-5432 tomeglenn Thu, 30 Apr 2009 17:10:01 +0000 http://searchengineland.com/?p=17204#comment-5432 Hey Danny, great article. It would seem that some stigma has been placed on URL shortening services - but I am of the firm belief that they do provide a valuable service when they are applied to things such as Twitter and Facebook etc. I myself am the creator of a brand new URL shortening service - http://tdy.me It is still under development, but I am hoping that it is well on its way to becoming the URL shortening service of choice for a lot of people. It is currently being implemented into a new iPhone Twitter client known as Twitterville (Which looks like it could give Tweetie a run for its money!) - so I am very excited about that! Again, great article. Hey Danny, great article. It would seem that some stigma has been placed on URL shortening services – but I am of the firm belief that they do provide a valuable service when they are applied to things such as Twitter and Facebook etc.

I myself am the creator of a brand new URL shortening service – http://tdy.me
It is still under development, but I am hoping that it is well on its way to becoming the URL shortening service of choice for a lot of people.

It is currently being implemented into a new iPhone Twitter client known as Twitterville (Which looks like it could give Tweetie a run for its money!) – so I am very excited about that!

Again, great article.

]]> By: solterno http://searchengineland.com/analysis-which-url-shortening-service-should-you-use-17204/comment-page-1#comment-5400 solterno Tue, 28 Apr 2009 09:29:37 +0000 http://searchengineland.com/?p=17204#comment-5400 Thanks for the huge list. I will add the shorteners who will manage how to show a location or an address. www.shortgps.com www.tinygps.org ...who are quite helpfull in some cases Thanks for the huge list.

I will add the shorteners who will manage how to show a location or an address.

http://www.shortgps.com
http://www.tinygps.org

…who are quite helpfull in some cases

]]> By: lupo http://searchengineland.com/analysis-which-url-shortening-service-should-you-use-17204/comment-page-1#comment-5334 lupo Tue, 21 Apr 2009 21:20:51 +0000 http://searchengineland.com/?p=17204#comment-5334 lovin the new http://toto.to dedicated to torrents. lovin the new http://toto.to dedicated to torrents.

]]> By: youfoundjake http://searchengineland.com/analysis-which-url-shortening-service-should-you-use-17204/comment-page-1#comment-5325 youfoundjake Sun, 19 Apr 2009 01:20:18 +0000 http://searchengineland.com/?p=17204#comment-5325 Well, as I promised, a short url branding plugin, made by phil nelson, intergrates nicely into wordpress.. keep the branding to yourself.. Sample link: http://youfoundjake.com/oyhvw thanks to danny for the poll, and thanks to phil nelson for the plugin Well, as I promised, a short url branding plugin, made by phil nelson, intergrates nicely into wordpress.. keep the branding to yourself..
Sample link: http://youfoundjake.com/oyhvw

thanks to danny for the poll, and thanks to phil nelson for the plugin

]]> By: jonas02 http://searchengineland.com/analysis-which-url-shortening-service-should-you-use-17204/comment-page-1#comment-5319 jonas02 Thu, 16 Apr 2009 22:46:36 +0000 http://searchengineland.com/?p=17204#comment-5319 http://to.ly and api docs: http://to.ly/api_info.php http://to.ly

and api docs: http://to.ly/api_info.php

]]> By: shoorturl http://searchengineland.com/analysis-which-url-shortening-service-should-you-use-17204/comment-page-1#comment-5303 shoorturl Wed, 15 Apr 2009 14:48:48 +0000 http://searchengineland.com/?p=17204#comment-5303 you forgot 2 URL shortening services : http://p1.fr http://a.nf you forgot 2 URL shortening services :

http://p1.fr
http://a.nf

]]> By: JoeMoreno http://searchengineland.com/analysis-which-url-shortening-service-should-you-use-17204/comment-page-1#comment-5284 JoeMoreno Sun, 12 Apr 2009 16:33:52 +0000 http://searchengineland.com/?p=17204#comment-5284 We noticed something interesting when using a 301 redirect with Adjix - Google Analytics no longer tracks traffic to that web page. Does anyone have a tip to get Google Analytics to track 301 redirects? We noticed something interesting when using a 301 redirect with Adjix – Google Analytics no longer tracks traffic to that web page.

Does anyone have a tip to get Google Analytics to track 301 redirects?

]]> By: JoeMoreno http://searchengineland.com/analysis-which-url-shortening-service-should-you-use-17204/comment-page-1#comment-5269 JoeMoreno Fri, 10 Apr 2009 04:21:28 +0000 http://searchengineland.com/?p=17204#comment-5269 Hi Danny, I saw the comments you left for Guy Kawasaki, above, about our service, Adjix. SEO is a bit of black magic, to us, but we're keenly interested in following the industry's best practices. We've changed our HTML status code from 200 to 301 for redirects - we'll try this and see how it works out. I really don't see any downside. As of today, to help with the SEO rankings of the original content when running our ads we also included a link rel=”canonical” to the original URL and we instructed robots not to index the frameset. Regarding framing when you selected "No Ad": There are two occasions when this may happen: 1. When anonymously shortening a URL (i.e. not being logged in), the first person to anonymously shorten the link wins. This is to prevent one person from shortening a URL without an ad only to have another person change this. However, hardly anyone uses Adjix to shorten URLs anonymously since you wouldn't be able to see your links stats. Regardless, we need to present the user with a clear message if their URL has previously been shorten by someone else. 2. If you shorten a URL, when you're logged in (or Adjix recognized you via a cookie), you cannot change the type of ad (if any) that's associated with your link. Again, this is to prevent someone from passing around their ad-free link only to turn on ads, later, if the link becomes popular - that would tick off a lot of people. I'm sure we'll learn more SEO best practices, going forward - thanks for your feedback. Cheers, Joe Moreno President Adjix joe.moreno+searchengineland@adjix.com Hi Danny,

I saw the comments you left for Guy Kawasaki, above, about our service, Adjix.

SEO is a bit of black magic, to us, but we’re keenly interested in following the industry’s best practices.

We’ve changed our HTML status code from 200 to 301 for redirects – we’ll try this and see how it works out. I really don’t see any downside.

As of today, to help with the SEO rankings of the original content when running our ads we also included a link rel=”canonical” to the original URL and we instructed robots not to index the frameset.

Regarding framing when you selected “No Ad”: There are two occasions when this may happen:

1. When anonymously shortening a URL (i.e. not being logged in), the first person to anonymously shorten the link wins. This is to prevent one person from shortening a URL without an ad only to have another person change this. However, hardly anyone uses Adjix to shorten URLs anonymously since you wouldn’t be able to see your links stats. Regardless, we need to present the user with a clear message if their URL has previously been shorten by someone else.

2. If you shorten a URL, when you’re logged in (or Adjix recognized you via a cookie), you cannot change the type of ad (if any) that’s associated with your link. Again, this is to prevent someone from passing around their ad-free link only to turn on ads, later, if the link becomes popular – that would tick off a lot of people.

I’m sure we’ll learn more SEO best practices, going forward – thanks for your feedback.

Cheers,
Joe Moreno
President
Adjix
joe.moreno+searchengineland@adjix.com

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