Complex Solutions to Simple Problems» keywords http://blog.heick.nu Just another WordPress weblog Sat, 05 Mar 2011 20:51:24 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 Optimizing urls for Twitter http://blog.heick.nu/social-media/optimizing-urls-for-twitter.html http://blog.heick.nu/social-media/optimizing-urls-for-twitter.html#comments Wed, 16 Apr 2008 22:01:23 +0000 Pål Heick http://blog.heick.nu/archives/2008/04/optimizing-urls-for-twitter excerpt thumb

But then again: that’s a rule of the game – and if your aim is to promote semantically rich urls in your Twitter-feed, you just better keep them below 30...

]]> But then again: that’s a rule of the game – and if your aim is to promote semantically rich urls in your Twitter-feed, you just better keep them below 30 characters. It’s hard enough to limit the praising of a given link to 140 characters.

So, what are the more concrete implications of this?
Well, looking at my own permalinks (that have annoyed me for some time now) – I now have another reason for skipping those non-semantical parts of the permalink: http://blog.heick.nu/archives/2008/04/. That’s 38 characters right there – and I can be pretty damn sure that any link from this blog posted on Twitter is going to be tinyurlified…
Still even if I (when) change my permalinks to the shortest possible form: http://blog.heick.nu/%postname% – I only have 10 chars to do with.
In any case – In the future, I might just start shortening my urls to make them Twitter-friendly…

Is that called Social Media Optimization? SMO?

]]> http://blog.heick.nu/social-media/optimizing-urls-for-twitter.html/feed 1 Tags in the head http://blog.heick.nu/weblogs/tags-in-the-head.html http://blog.heick.nu/weblogs/tags-in-the-head.html#comments Wed, 10 May 2006 20:31:07 +0000 Pål Heick http://blog.heick.nu/archives/2006/05/tags-in-the-head excerpt thumb

Ever wanted an easy way to add tags as keywords to your posts? Ever wanted to use the excerpt as meta description? I have. And until now, I’ve been using...

]]> Ever wanted an easy way to add tags as keywords to your posts? Ever wanted to use the excerpt as meta description? I have. And until now, I’ve been using the Headspace Plugin (quite a good plugin, but requires some tinkering and tampering).

Enter Tags in the head. Basically, you gain same results using the two plugins – Tags in the head is just soooo much easier to use…

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