Comments on: yourchurchURL.com…? – Ministry-Branded URL Shorteners

By: KevinRossen

KevinRossen — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 18:06:52 +0000

If your domain is on Google Apps you there's a free option in the Google Solutions Marketplace. Check it out: http://www.google.com/enterprise/marketplace/view... I think this is VERY useful for churches for newsletters, bulletins, etc, because the majority of people are kind of intimidated by technology and don't really know what tinyurl or bit.ly is. They may be hesitant to click the link. But if they saw the church's domain built in they probably would click it without hesitation. Here's a link I did using my personal domain that points back to this blog: http://go.rossen.net/churchcrunch

By: Paul Steinbrueck

Paul Steinbrueck — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 11:00:16 +0000

Mark, thanks for the link, that's a great article!

By: Mark Alves

Mark Alves — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 02:49:11 +0000

The random characters won't matter from an anchor text perspective because it's a standalone link pointing elsewhere. If you're using (or developing) a shortener that uses a 301 redirect then you'll still get most of the value of the in-bound link. Here's a recap of which shorteners pass link juice: http://searchengineland.com/analysis-which-url-sh...

By: human3rror

human3rror — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 16:05:05 +0000

backtype.

By: benboles

benboles — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 15:53:42 +0000

Which WordPress URL shortener plugin do you use?

By: Paul Steinbrueck

Paul Steinbrueck — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 14:55:07 +0000

Kevin, a URL shorter doesn't change the actual URL of any of the pages, so you can still have keywords in your domain, path, and filename to help SEO. But depending on the service it could affect whether those links help your site in search engines.

When someone links directly to a page on your site, that helps it in search engines. But if someone posts a link to the short URL instead, the URL shortening service would have to use a 301 redirect to ensure the short URL passes "link juice" to your site.

By: kevincooper

kevincooper — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 14:07:18 +0000

How can URL shortening affect SEO? Since the shorteners use random characters, how will this have an impact?

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Posts about Mashable as of August 4, 2009 » The Daily Parr — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 00:40:14 +0000

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By: Jim

Jim — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 22:48:37 +0000

good idea

By: human3rror

human3rror — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 20:06:04 +0000

very cool.