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URL Shorteners and SEO – Will Google considers shortened URLs while giving PR and Banklink benefits?
As now a days everybody in the online marketing industry are well aware about many URL shorteners like http://bit.ly/, http://goo.gl/, http://tinyurl.com/ etc…
But one question comes in their mind every time they use such tool or website to shorten their long URLs is that “Will Google considers such shortened URLs while giving PR and Banklink benefits?” The answer of that question is well explained by Google’s Matt Cutts in a very good article by Chris Crum at WebProNews.com as below:
With Google looking more at social media these days, in terms of ranking signals, a lot of webmasters continue to wonder how Google treats URL-shorteners in terms of SEO.
This isn’t completely new information, but it still seems to be a topic that continues to come up fairly regularly. Google’s Matt Cutts addressed the issue in a video posted to Google’s Webmaster Help YouTube channel.
“Custom URL shorteners are essentially just like any other redirects,” he explains. “If we try to crawl a page, and we see a 301 or permanent redirect, which pretty much all well-behaved URL shorteners (like bit.ly or goo.gl) will do, if we see that 301 then that will pass PageRank to the final destination.”
SEO Link Building Guide : Link Building 101 – The Almost Complete Link Guide
By Scott McLay at http://www.seomoz.org
Most of the advice I will be giving throughout this post is most likely available from a large number of sources including SEOmoz but I felt it would be great to bring everything together under one simple guide.
Creating your link building strategy
Before building any links to a website it is important to ask yourself a few questions like: