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Need a generic way to create SEO friendly URL
I have searched a lot and implemented many many Regular Expression in my .htaccess file but can not succeed. How do I find a generic way that make my URL SEO friendly?
Currently this is in my ...
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Is traffic coming from url shorteners treated as direct?
Traffic coming form shortened urls like bit.ly, do they show up in Google Analytics as direct or do they keep their real referrer?
Ex. If someone types in a bit.ly link it counts as direct, but if ...
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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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Removing file extensions off the url
I am looking for a way to remove the extensions off the end of the Url. So say for example www.example.com/about.html. This would change to www.example.com/about
I've looked around and searched for ...
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Is It Possible To Find Shortened URL Versions of a Long URL?
I'm wondering if I have a URL like: www.watermintstudios.com and I want to know if anyone else has made use of a bit.ly, goo.gl or other such URL shortening service to point to that URL is there a way ...
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pagerank credit when site linking to you uses a redirect or url shortener?
I have several backlinks from quality sites that link to something like "http://site.com/gobbledygook/http://mysite.com when I hover over the link. And sites like Twitter do the whole url shortening ...
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Self-hosted URL shorteners with built-in statistics?
I'm looking for self-hosted URL shortener scripts and projects (e.g. YOURLs) that track traffic sources, locations and other statistics. I need one with a solid API and JSON support. Any suggestions?
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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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Exit link tracking with timestamped logs on 3rd party content
I want to track clicks on exit links, that are placed in 3rd party content, for example on Twitter. I also need the timestamps of the clicks.
Google Analytics can't be embedded in 3rd party content.
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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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How to pass a url with appended # section to Twitter?
Is possible to send URLs with "#" selector to Twitter ?
In other terms, can I generate a short url pointing to a specific section in my webpage ?
I've tried to pass the url but Twitter interpret ...
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Looking for big list of shortening service websites
Does anybody know where to get list of working long2short service websites? The bigger the better - I need at least 100 of them.
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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 ...
