Are shorten URLs Friendly..?

Hi you know shorten URLs friendly.Yes its very used for social media websites.Like twitter, Facebook, 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 screenshot and video for better understanding.

 

i think they are not friendly..

 

Yes, you are right, those urls which are forwarded to make it short are not helpful in SEO>

 

they help for making money, stats, but not for seo

 

Use them only when you need, they are not good for SEO.

 

you better use your own site urls even if they are long. but if you want to post them of facebook or twitter you can use the short urls

 

Yes, if you want your websites' own stability, don't put it on any support. Only try to strengthen, you will win certainly. Good luck from my side

 

Remember that short URLs are contextual, that is they depend on the algorithm provided by the company issuing them. They're great for short terms, but they may become problematic in time. So, definitely, they're not good for SEO in the long run.

 

Whenever need only use then otherwise dont use this short url method.

 

it helps in terms of online promotions esp. to sites with character limits which mostly are social media sites like facebook and twitter

 

Google has said they get treated the same as any other 301 re-direct and they pass PageRank and even text value (though this could only be surrounding text, the same as in image search, since there is no text cover on a short link, and Twitter has no-follow attributes) so in most cases where they are used, the SEO value ( rather than pure traffic value) is low.

 

The truth is you lose a little bit of link juice with 302 redirects. Just test it for yourself. Also, 302 is Google friendly but Yahoo and Bing is the whole different story.

 

Actually it is recommended to use URL shortener's using a 301 redirect as listed in this article in regards to Google you-know-who confirms this here

 

You are right. I made a typo. 301 of course.

 

searchengineland has given a detailed information.

 

I use zpag.es to earn money. That's free URL shortening and earn money by every person that visits my URLs in my site and blogs.

zpag.es

 

Short or catchy like http://www.hasfernandotorresscoredforchelsea.com/

 

They're all good if they're 301 redirects. There's no SEO problem with using them.

Matt Cutts confirmed this on Google Webmaster Tools's video channel on YouTube.

 

I heard they are bad for SEO

 

Hey thanks for asking the question I was also looking for the answer...