Sunday
14Jun2009
su.pr adds URL shortening for your domain and SEO friendly redirects
Sunday, June 14, 2009 at 1:13PM
I've been playing around with su.pr for the past few days (see my earlier post for my first impressions) and I'm pretty pleased with it so far.
Stumbleupon seem to be listening to their users and are adding features quickly. The latest additions are "Short URLs on your domain" and "SEO friendly redirect".
The latter is probably the most important. With these 2 services installed, anyone who clicks on one of the shortened URL's now ends up on the original URL, rather than one prefixed with the Stumbleupon short URL section. This is important for SEO, as the click is now registered as a click on your own domain.
su.pr additional traffic
It certainly looks that way. Not a huge amount at the moment, but, as Tesco would say, every little helps! Check the image above. In 5 days of use, I've had an additional 192 page views as a result of using the service. That's not to be sniffed at. And, given that it's very early days, I'd expect to see that increasing.
One of the features being worked on is the ability to post to Twitter, Facebook etc automatically when you post to your blog, as many other URL shortening services already do. When that's in place, I can really see no good reason to use any other URL shortener. Stumbleupon's ability to generate huge amounts of traffic can't be ignored.
Stumbleupon seem to be listening to their users and are adding features quickly. The latest additions are "Short URLs on your domain" and "SEO friendly redirect".
The latter is probably the most important. With these 2 services installed, anyone who clicks on one of the shortened URL's now ends up on the original URL, rather than one prefixed with the Stumbleupon short URL section. This is important for SEO, as the click is now registered as a click on your own domain.
Is it bringing in traffic?
su.pr additional trafficIt certainly looks that way. Not a huge amount at the moment, but, as Tesco would say, every little helps! Check the image above. In 5 days of use, I've had an additional 192 page views as a result of using the service. That's not to be sniffed at. And, given that it's very early days, I'd expect to see that increasing.
More coming soon
One of the features being worked on is the ability to post to Twitter, Facebook etc automatically when you post to your blog, as many other URL shortening services already do. When that's in place, I can really see no good reason to use any other URL shortener. Stumbleupon's ability to generate huge amounts of traffic can't be ignored.
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