Timeline for Does shortened URL carry less weight in terms of SEO?
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| Feb 15, 2014 at 10:14 | vote | accept | Suhail Gupta | ||
| Feb 12, 2014 at 15:11 | comment | added | nathangiesbrecht | Somewhat, but only very very slightly. As Geoff's link shows, the amount of link juice passed between a redirected URL and a direct URL is almost the same. The biggest benefit in strict SEO terms is that if your optimizing for the word "widget", a link to widget-store.com is more descriptive to a search engine than a link to goo.gl/asd897d. But search engines also prefer faster pages, and the redirect will take time. | |
| Feb 12, 2014 at 11:39 | comment | added | Suhail Gupta | The whole purpose of creating back links is to increase the vote count. It may not echo in the search but would make the rank of the abstract url (abc.com) higher. Is that correct ? | |
| Feb 11, 2014 at 21:47 | history | answered | nathangiesbrecht | CC BY-SA 3.0 |