Comments on: The Twitter Friendly Links Plugin

By: Twitter Friendly Links Video: Live at WordPress.tv!

Twitter Friendly Links Video: Live at WordPress.tv! — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 18:03:29 +0000

[...] very glad to announce that the Twitter Friendly Links video I did a couple of days ago is now hosted at WordPress.tv! Big shout out to Michael who uploaded the video in HQ – thanks [...]

By: Konstantin

Konstantin — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 17:10:17 +0000

Robert, TFL will be getting an upgrade soon, and a major one so stay tuned

By: Robert D.

Robert D. — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:36:31 +0000

Question for the developer: how does this plug-in compare to Blair Williams’s Pretty Link Pro plug-in? What are the pros/cons? I know that he offers a free version (http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/pretty-link/) of it as well. I am considering a plug-in that serves this purpose. I’ll test out both in the meantime.

Thanks!

By: Robert D.

Robert D. — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:34:00 +0000

Mike, Suzdawg and everyone else: the focus of this plug-in is in helping you increase your site’s inbound links, which is part of a good SEO strategy. When you use a third-party service like bit.ly, you’re basically giving that link away to the bit.lys and tinyurls of the game. In most cases, your link contains content that you’ve put considerable time and effort creating — your site deserves all the credit for that link.

So I hope you can understand why getting this plug-in to communicate with the bit.ly API or having this work on a domain other than your domain is not such a good idea. I also hope that this comment doesn’t come off the wrong way. I’ve been learning a lot about SEO and WordPress lately and wanted to share some of that info with you, as it applies to this particular post.

Take care

By: Konstantin

Konstantin — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 00:59:24 +0000

Kenneth, I used simple screenshots and some photoshop. The video, effects and everything else were done in Sony Vegas.

By: Kenneth Watt

Kenneth Watt — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 18:24:39 +0000

Thanks for this.
Which program did you use for the screencast/animation of text and graphics?
Kenneth

By: Affiliates

Affiliates — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 07:36:54 +0000

Nice work, thanks for sharing.
I was thinking over the Twitter fact and i got same today. I will try it now.

By: zee

zee — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 09:48:36 +0000

nice post keep it up

By: suzdawg

suzdawg — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 03:43:19 +0000

I like this idea a lot! I also like Mike’s suggestion of using a different owned domain. I think having an option for published posts to automatically be Tweeted was be great as well. I don’t manually publish posts to Twitter and as someone who schedules posts, I’d enjoy having that automated for me. Thanks!

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 00:16:22 +0000

Nice work! Thanks! Here are a couple of features that I’d love to have:

1. The option to set my own alphanumeric ID for the short URL when composing the post. (And an alternate option to get an automated ID based on the title/slug/etc., which I believe was mentioned previously).

AND

2. The ability to have the short links created on a different domain of mine.
Example
Original URL: myblogdomain.com/2009.05.29/post-name
Short URL: mbdm.com/code

#2 sounds technically difficult but it would be so valuable.

What do you guys think?

Thanks.