TOPIC: shorturl.com

Hey Dom!

What's this site about?  Any advantages, disadvantages in using it?  I noticed some folks on facebook and twitter use it for their url link postings.  What's the sub-domain thing about?

Sorry for all the questions, so many things to keep up with on the web, yikes!

www.shorturl.com/

It's a very bad thing for your site ranking as you're not linking to your site, but you're linking to shorturl. It's main purpose is when posting on forums and stuff some people want to post a shorter version of a link (for example, URL's in here could get long). It's much smarter though just to use Anchor text instead which boosts your ranking.

Thanks Dom....

I'll just use it for my twitter. linkedin and facebook updates.  I add daily real estate news articles to all three sites.  Some of the news site article url's are way long.

Have a great Sunday!

Exactly, you can definitely use them on those sites. Just not to link to your own.