Archive for December, 2008

How TinyURL works and impact on SEO

Thursday, December 18th, 2008

Websites like TinyURL allow you to shorten long URL’s into short ones. For instance, you might be reading a post on our blog that has a long URL, such as http://www.web1marketing.com/blog/index.php/archives/international-seo-subdomains-or-folders/. This can cause problems in email and will take up all of your message room in text messages or Twitter. TinyURL converts this into [...]

International SEO: subdomains or folders?

Tuesday, December 16th, 2008

Recently a prospective client asked how best to handle international versions of their online content. They will have different versions of their copy in different languages. Should they create separate websites? Use subdomains? Or use folders in the main site?
The use of separate websites, e.g. www.company.cn vs. www.company.be, has only one SEO advantage over other [...]