Impact of URL shorteners in Twitter feeds
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Hello,
Will use of URL shorteners [bit.ly/tiny.cc or equivalent] in Twitter feeds impact the rankings of a target pages?
As I understand it Twiitter links are automatically generated as nofollows so I am assuming the published link is irrelevant.
Is this still the case?
If we do continue to use URL shortereners should we look at branded URL-shorteners to provide link context?
Thanks.
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Thanks Steve - very useful.
Jan
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Aside from the Twitter feed factor, as far as I'm aware there is some issue where only some shorteners pass link juice while others don't. I can't remember where I got that from so I did a search to see and found this (not sure of its credibility though): http://www.kensfi.com/how-url-shorteners-pass-link-juice/
There's some links from SE Land here though which seem to be saying all is well http://searchengineland.com/twitter-gets-its-own-url-shortener-to-stop-scams-37676
http://searchengineland.com/analysis-which-url-shortening-service-should-you-use-17204
That only really half answers the Q, but interesting none the less I think
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