Do short URL's effect SEO? (with different domain)

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So I've been reading up on SEO lately and been trying to find answers to this question. In short I've read that it doesn't have any negative effects, but the only way it's improves SEO if it uses 301 redirects.

But my main question is if it's still the same for using short URL's that are a different domain?
Our domain is thetradehub.net but we trhub.net as a short URL for when users copy blog posts, or profile links.

Sem · Accepted Answer

In short, the length of a URL could affect the appearance of hunt particles but doesn't affect hunt rankings. We use Money Accounts for business.

Jaroslaw Pidburskyj 🇮🇹Ï🇺🇦SEO · Answer

@richw Hi Rich when they talk about shorteners they mean using your domain like: thetradehub.net/a-free-social-trading-app-where-retail-traders-of-stock-collaborate/ better this way thetradehub.net/social-traders-stock-app/ short and to the point eliminating stop words like "a" and "of" stop words don’t rank wel on google.

Your domain name is just fine to use, it falls within the 15 character length at 11.

What you need to do is your keyword research because you didn’t do it, you also need to review up on, watch and read on "how seo works" as it’s your Google tuner.

People who have very large [over 15 characters] domains might use bit.ly/ for shorteners, look at Twitter they use them there too.

Jaroslaw Pidburskyj 🇮🇹Ï🇺🇦SEO · Answer

@richw Hi Rich well just stick with them, you should not have bought trhub.net, waste of time, keep use bit.ly or someone other okay, good luck, if you need anything else that needs attention just post something hopefully I’ll see it.

Jaroslaw Pidburskyj 🇮🇹Ï🇺🇦SEO · Answer

@richw Hi Rich, it really doesn’t matter which TLD you use. I reside in the UK so I’ll use forever more .co.uk because from this TLD Google knows where I live and work. TLDs or gTLDs doesn’t help your SEO whatsoever, people think it does, shame. If I went .com Google would think I’m an American and place my domain there, does this connect with you. Other says the best TLD is .com, yes if multi-international, have a base there then yes all day long, otherwise no way. I’ll give a small secret so you can look more into "keyword research" because it looks as you have not, your title tag is Home — this is what killings your website, focus more on here and forget buying gTLDs

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Jaroslaw Pidburskyj 🇮🇹Ï🇺🇦SEO · Answer

@richw Hi Rich, it doesn’t, people write in some cases extremely long URLs & are embarrassed so use bit.ly/ as shorteners they don’t help seo is any way. Always use their own

Jaroslaw Pidburskyj 🇮🇹Ï🇺🇦SEO · Answer

Thetradehub and trnub to Google would be listed and classed as two different domains, so for your SEO it will impact on it. It’s like starting again from scratch.

You should have just purchased just "tradehub" and omitted the "the" as "the" is classed as a "stop word". Stop words don’t rank very effective with Google, great making up a sentence.

I have noticed that you can have a domain length as large as 15 characters but keep keywords within and leave stop words in senetences.

Hope it helps

Jaroslaw Pidburskyj 🇮🇹Ï🇺🇦SEO · Answer

@richw Hi Rich, I went to WHOIS and looked into buying TRHUB.NET. Someone bought it, was it you, then you will start as if your starting out from new at zero. I also checked the DA value which came back as DA7, so you can’t have trhub.net if someone has bought it can you. Hope it helps

PS I looked into hubtrade.net and that is available

Rich Watson · Answer

@noproseo so when using a service like bit.ly for lets say as backlinks, that short URL doesn't count as a backlink to the main URL?

Eliza · Answer

My advice to you.

1. Use only the main domain
2. URL shortening is not necessary, because it will reduce link juice (backlink strength)
3. If you want a short url, just enter the main keyword in the url

hassle mark · Answer

Using short URLs, whether they are on the same domain or a different one, generally doesn't have a direct impact on SEO. Short URLs themselves don't inherently carry SEO value. However, if you're using 301 redirects with short URLs, it can have a positive effect because it passes on link equity from the short URL to the target URL. This consolidation of link signals can potentially benefit your SEO efforts. Now, regarding the distinction between different domains, such as thetradehub.net and trhub.net, the same principles apply. As long as you're utilizing 301 redirects appropriately, you're effectively consolidating link signals regardless of the domain. Just ensure that your short URLs are set up to redirect to the corresponding long URLs using proper HTTP status codes. .NET 7 VS .NET 8: The latest iteration, .NET 8, brings several enhancements and features over .NET 7. With improvements in performance, security, and developer productivity, .NET 8 offers a more robust framework for building modern applications. Its enhanced support for cloud-native development, containerization, and microservices architecture makes it a compelling choice for developers looking to leverage the latest advancements in the .NET ecosystem.

Rich Watson · Answer

@noproseo tradehub isn't available on any decent domains

So what I was reading about short URL's and 301 redirects, is only using the domain name to create the short URL? not a separate domain?

Rich Watson · Answer

@noproseo i own thetradehub.net & trhub.net we use trhub.net for short URL's for example; user profile = thetradehub.net/user/rich short url = u.trhub.net/rich stock info = thetradehub.net/stock/aapl short url = s.trhub.net/aapl I was reading some guides/articles, and they mentioned that short URLs can be good for SEO's so long they use 301 redirects. Does this only apply to short URLs for the same domain name? (I.e. thetradehub.net/blog/my-long-blog-title-here-about-nothing vs thetradehub.net/blog/blog-on-nothing <-- is this what it's referring to?) https://tech.co/news/5-ways-url-... https://www.hubledigital.com/blo... this just caught my attention about indexing short urls, haven't read it yet. https://betterdocs.co/blog/index...

Rich Watson · Answer

@noproseo Yes that's exactly what I'm talking about, bit.ly and twitter's short link are perfect examples of what i'm trying to get at- that is the purpose of trhub.net

Rich Watson · Answer

@noproseo Here's a good answer to what I was looking for https://support.google.com/webma...

Do short URL's effect SEO? (with different domain)

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