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Re:Tell HN: How to ban url shorteners from linking to your site by andrewf on Monday July 20, 2009 @04:27AM (#714146)
Putting as much content in the URL as possible is a common SEO tactic.

A bit silly, really - we're producing readable English links targeted at the machines, and short strings of unintelligible gibberish for humans to look at and click on.

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Re:Tell HN: How to ban url shorteners from linking to your site by jrockway on Monday July 20, 2009 @04:57AM (#714170)
Putting as much content in the URL as possible is a common SEO tactic.

Are there any controlled studies that shows that this does anything useful? Or is it an imagined effect? ("We think it should work this way, so it does!")

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