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Hello Everybody,
I have list of social bookmaking & I have submitted my all links. So now could i used shorten URL for submission? Is it legal or spam? Does this thing help me to get ranking high?

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A practical, goal-first checklist and a few tests to decide whether to use shortened links for off-page submissions.

Short decision rule: if the submission is intended to earn editorial backlinks and long-term referral/link value, prefer the full canonical URL. If the priority is campaign tracking, single-click sharing, or character-limited posts, a shortened link can be acceptable — but take steps to avoid common pitfalls that kill value over time.

What to watch for (quick tests)

  • Inspect the shortener output: does the target page still appear as a normal HTML link, or does the shortener add rel="nofollow" (which prevents passing link signals) or strip anchor text?
  • Check HTTP headers and redirect behavior with a quick request, for example:
    curl -I https://shortener.example/abc123

    Look for the status code and the final Location value. Also open the short link in a browser and view source to confirm whether the shortener injects extra markup or scripts.

  • Monitor link persistence: third-party shorteners can be shut down or flagged; that causes link rot and lost referrals.

Best practices

  • For SEO-targeted submissions, use the full canonical URL when possible.
  • If you must shorten, use a branded short domain you control so you keep ownership and can control redirects and uptime.
  • Avoid adding tracking parameters as the canonical public link; use them for campaign landing pages only and ensure the page canonicalizes to the clean URL.
  • Track and verify in Google Search Console (Links report) and site analytics to confirm the short links are being crawled and recorded.

Further reading on how redirects are handled is in Google's documentation: . This expands on redirect behavior and how to verify your implementation.

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Member Avatar for OliviaSSLGuru

Using short url won't be considered as a spam. But it won't help you anyways in seo. Moreover, it can restrict some incoming benefits. For example, i use to keep short urls of my site address to bookmark, but on searching the bookmark site with the actual url, i found that it was already bookmarked by 10 other users.

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Short URLs have their purpose -- they can be easy-to-remember and easy to link to on Twitter or from a mobile device. But they use 301 redirects to redirect the user to the correct full URL, and while 301 redirects DO pass pagerank, they don't pass complete pagerank (a little is lost each time a 301 redirect is used). If you don't explicitly need to (b/c you're on twitter, etc), don't use them.

Member Avatar for indiarajasthan

I will consider as spam and this one will also not give your seo value

Member Avatar for pgmco

I would not use that as it is a redirect which will not help with SEO.

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