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Do url shortening services shorten the id or directly the url?
Assuming the urls are saved to a database where they each have id and the URL saved.
For example a URL www.example.com (let's say with id 1000) would possibly be shortened to www.url.com/c1hd5 etc.
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SEO and URL Shorteners
When you have a link from lets say twitter that is t.co/foo that links back to your website how does that effect SEO and how do the major search engines handle Shortened URLs?
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SEO - reducing URL length
Take a recent question:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6479771/properties-of-inner-exception-are-disposed
Instead of having an integer, if we base 36 encode the question ID we get 3uvtn, cutting ...
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I want to run a URL shortener for my own usage, what do I need to do?
I am tired of using external URL shorteners, my favorite "tr.im" went out of business. I know there are some that will do reporting for me, but I want to run my own, so I can see the usage myself, for ...
