Following Your Content with URL Shorteners
Don’t forget to follow your content because social is now a large part of search results for people. Search results from all major search engines give weight to content that is getting a high social score due to being talked about or shared on social sites like Twitter, YouTube, Google+, Delicious, Reddit, StumbleUpon, Tumblr, Pinterest, and others.
One example of a great URL shortener is Bit.ly. Bit.ly allows custom links, which makes each link easy to remember and share. It also tracks your link as it travels online and then delivers information to you about who is engaging with that link and sharing it further.
You can choose from many URL shorteners. (In fact, we covered quite a few in another Wiley book — Twitter For Dummies, which I wrote with Laura Fitton and Michael Gruen!) Bit.ly is just one example. Whichever one you like best, make sure ...
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