Complex Solutions to Simple Problems» optimizing http://blog.heick.nu Just another WordPress weblog Fri, 12 Mar 2010 08:17:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 en hourly 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 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?

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So, fluffing content isn’t that hard after all :-)

Content optimizing part 2

Not at all, in fact…

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