Comments on: The Twitter Friendly Links Plugin

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.

By: rene

rene — Fri, 29 May 2009 21:04:44 +0000

Thanks, became interested and going to try, after will post my opinion

By: Jeff Holland

Jeff Holland — Sun, 24 May 2009 19:45:16 +0000

Thanks for this video…I have been brain storming for something just like this and thanks to you I have what I was looking for and not all those spam looking links that make you want to click them just to see what they lead too…my pet peave.

By: inspirationals2012

inspirationals2012 — Thu, 21 May 2009 07:28:38 +0000

Brilliant!!!

By: kovshenin

kovshenin — Mon, 18 May 2009 08:09:54 +0000

Why would I ever want to make it work with bit.ly? The point of the plugin is to be able to NOT use those ugly trimming services

By: Jason Katzenback

Jason Katzenback — Fri, 15 May 2009 17:18:25 +0000

If you could make it work with the http://www.bit.ly tracking API that would be awesome.

By: Matthias Pfefferle

Matthias Pfefferle — Fri, 15 May 2009 14:53:16 +0000

yep

By: kovshenin

kovshenin — Fri, 15 May 2009 14:38:45 +0000

You’re right, but having keywords in the address is also a good idea.

By: kovshenin

kovshenin — Fri, 15 May 2009 14:36:49 +0000

You’re welcome

By: kovshenin

kovshenin — Fri, 15 May 2009 14:36:38 +0000

Good point.

By: kovshenin

kovshenin — Fri, 15 May 2009 14:36:08 +0000

I did a couple of months ago..

By: kovshenin

kovshenin — Fri, 15 May 2009 14:35:48 +0000

It doesn’t affect PageRank, cause Twitter’s rel=nofollow. Anyway, there can never be too much backlinks, even if they don’t give you pagerank, cause search isn’t all about pagerank, is it?

By: kovshenin

kovshenin — Fri, 15 May 2009 14:34:14 +0000

Thanks!

By: kovshenin

kovshenin — Fri, 15 May 2009 14:33:57 +0000

Not yet. Could I consider that as a feature request?

By: Arifur Rahman

Arifur Rahman — Thu, 14 May 2009 17:37:44 +0000

Thank’s

By: Alexander

Alexander — Thu, 14 May 2009 02:12:30 +0000

This is a great idea and has various benefits, if only my domain names weren’t so long. ^^

By: Staff

Staff — Wed, 13 May 2009 17:59:42 +0000

Just what we were looking for!
…branded, analytics and free!!!!

Thanks WordPress!

By: James McWhorter

James McWhorter — Wed, 13 May 2009 17:12:44 +0000

Thank you. I will be using this soon! Why didn’t someone think of this sooner?!?

By: crisiboy

crisiboy — Wed, 13 May 2009 14:59:29 +0000

Tweet this post!

By: Code For Future

Code For Future — Wed, 13 May 2009 03:16:57 +0000

Good work!

Can you please explain what are the options for using “Link Style”? Couldn’t find on your website

By: tonymel

tonymel — Wed, 13 May 2009 03:07:25 +0000

Great info, thanks!

By: gregoranton

gregoranton — Tue, 12 May 2009 21:45:50 +0000

I love it! Tinyurl looks too much like spam to me. This is a great alternative. How will SEO be effected?

By: Stephen

Stephen — Tue, 12 May 2009 20:46:40 +0000

Great little plugin! A great treat to be able to see any traffic generated by my own tiny urls in my existing analytic account. Also great for branding and SEO.

By: buffawhat

buffawhat — Tue, 12 May 2009 17:33:51 +0000

This is a great plugin idea, but I just want to point out how possible this is just by changed your permalink structure to /%post_id%/%postname%/ or /%post_id%/whatevertagyouwant/.

I’ve been doing this since I started using twitter in 2007:

this:
http://buffawhat.com/789/wordpress-tipmake-your-permalinks-choppable/
is equal to this:
http://buffawhat.com/789

having a unique number with your link also looks better to services like google news.

I do like the tweet this function on the side.

By: Nick

Nick — Tue, 12 May 2009 17:00:46 +0000

Link to plugin page: http://bit.ly/UauTU

By: Alenônimo

Alenônimo — Tue, 12 May 2009 16:01:18 +0000

Neat!

By: Matthias Pfefferle

Matthias Pfefferle — Tue, 12 May 2009 13:23:13 +0000

Does your Plugin support rev-canonical (http://shiflett.org/blog/2009/apr/save-the-internet-with-rev-canonical)?