Comments on: Pondering PageRank and TinyURLs http://simonmcmanus.wordpress.com/2007/12/10/pondering-pagerank-and-tinyurls/ Tue, 03 Mar 2009 15:02:57 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: FND http://simonmcmanus.wordpress.com/2007/12/10/pondering-pagerank-and-tinyurls/#comment-924 FND Mon, 10 Dec 2007 22:04:05 +0000 http://simonmcmanus.com/2007/12/10/pondering-pagerank-and-tinyurls/#comment-924 I'm generally not hugely interested in the whole PageRank/SEO issue - nevertheless, I agree that TinyURLs are a problem. In the case of Twitter, it does of course make sense to use TinyURLs when messages are distributed via SMS. But for all other channels (e.g. IM, the web interface) the respective URL could be kept in its original form, possibly with a shortened label. In fact, this seems to be happening already (e.g. http://twitter.com/FND/statuses/487899022) - though not consistently (I fail to recognize any pattern so far). I’m generally not hugely interested in the whole PageRank/SEO issue – nevertheless, I agree that TinyURLs are a problem.

In the case of Twitter, it does of course make sense to use TinyURLs when messages are distributed via SMS. But for all other channels (e.g. IM, the web interface) the respective URL could be kept in its original form, possibly with a shortened label.
In fact, this seems to be happening already (e.g. http://twitter.com/FND/statuses/487899022) – though not consistently (I fail to recognize any pattern so far).

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