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If you are on Twitter like me, you already know that it automatically converts your long URL twits to TinyURL link. Now, here’s a little trick you can do to link directly to your blog post without Twitter converting it to TinyURL.
You must have a WordPress version 2.3 or higher. Since WordPress 2.3 and above already has a canonical URL feature, you can take advantage of this. Instead of linking to your blog post with your long URL, you can instead link to it using the shorter version of your link, with the format http://yourdomain.com/?p=POSTID.
For example, this post has a post ID of 566. I got this by checking the Manage > Posts on my WordPress Admin Panel. So, I can link to this blog post using http://macuha.com/?p=566. That’s one character less than the TinyURL link of http://tinyurl.com/xxxxxx format. Converting it to TinyURL is unreasonable since they are going it to make it longer, isn’t it?
Using this technique, you’re sure that your link will always work on Twitter as long as your site is up. No need to be dependent on the TinyURL service. Here are some reasons why you must not depend on it.
Will this hurt your blog SEO-wise? No. Because that link will issue a 301 redirect to your true URL. So, all links linking to your shortURL will transfer the google juice to your true URL. It will not be indexed by Google.
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January 25th, 2008 at 9:03 pm
gandang advice nyan ah… now lang ako nagka twitter eh hehe
January 25th, 2008 at 9:20 pm
how about sa blogger?
hehehehe
January 26th, 2008 at 7:49 pm
is that an automatic feature brother? or need pa ng plugin for that? di ba parang permalinks un? tama ba mga pinagssabi ko? hahaha
January 27th, 2008 at 7:36 pm
this is really a great idea. I thought we would prolong our suffering with the tinyURL stuff. I never realized that the canonical URL feature has a big significance. thanks for this update.
Anyhow thanks for visiting my blog the other day. Are you the same Macuha that visits ambo’s blog?
have a nice week ahead of you.
Pax et Bonum
January 27th, 2008 at 9:25 pm
ako na sasagot kapatid na bluep. sia nga kapatid hahaha ako na sumagot talaga.
September 2nd, 2008 at 4:19 am
The problem is if you edit your post, the ‘revisions’ thing changes the URL of your post so p=566 doesn’t work out.
September 19th, 2008 at 3:33 am
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December 7th, 2008 at 4:00 pm
Same as I am. Ngayon ko lang na open uli yung twitter.
January 24th, 2009 at 2:51 am
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June 2nd, 2009 at 11:43 pm
Doesn’t this only save space since macuha.com is shorter than tinyurl.com by 1 letter.
Since my domain name is longer than tinyurl.com I’ll not be saving any space in my twitter post although it’ll look nicer than the tinyurl.com link
June 2nd, 2009 at 11:44 pm
Doesn’t this only save space since macuha.com is 1 letter shorter than tinyurl.com.
Since my domain name is longer than tinyurl.com it’ll not save me any space in my tweet but at least it’ll look nicer.