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Advantages and Disadvantages fo URL Shorteners

Posted by Jeffrey Blake on Wednesday, January 6, 2010, In : SEO 


URL shorteners are everywhere now.  I cant keep up with them.  Im talking about url shorteners and redirectors as tinyurl.com and bit.ly among many others.   It doesnt take a lot of reflection to understand that controlling links is a money making venture.  I think there are still opportunities in how the url shortener uses the links.

Some of the advantages of using one are:

  • Short URLs - duh.  With the rise of Twitter and the need to keep tweets under 140 characters h...

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Twitter Followers No Longer Necessary

Posted by Jeffrey Blake on Sunday, December 6, 2009, In : Twitter 
followers When I started Twitter over a year ago I thought it was necessary to have followers on twitter - to advertise your recently created blog or to spread an idea.   Twitter is now becoming more like search than a conversation.  Don't get me wrong - Twitter is an important place to have small conversations and to maintain your mind share with other people. 

The first thing that clued me in is that I dont look at my home feed that often.   I am using HootSuite to manage my Twitter accounts - pers...
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