{"id":718,"date":"2010-10-08T02:40:27","date_gmt":"2010-10-08T06:40:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/news-seo\/?p=718"},"modified":"2012-06-21T03:40:52","modified_gmt":"2012-06-21T07:40:52","slug":"google-launches-new-url-shortening-website","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/news-seo\/google-launches-new-url-shortening-website\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Launches New URL Shortening Website"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Google <\/strong>by introducing its very own URL shortening website <strong>http:\/\/goo.gl\/<\/strong> has added another service to its swiftly escalating range.With its new\u00a0goo.gl site,\u00a0Google joins the likes of\u00a0bit.ly and tinyurl.com in enabling internet users to shorten long web addresses into more manageable, bite-size links.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p align=\"center\"><a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-726\" title=\"Google Url Shortner\" src=\"http:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/news-seo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/google-url-shortner2.png\" alt=\"Google Url Shortner\" width=\"423\" height=\"120\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/news-seo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/google-url-shortner2.png 423w, https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/news-seo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/google-url-shortner2-300x85.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 423px) 100vw, 423px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The demand for link shortening services has increased considerably in recent years, as users of social networks such as Twitter and Facebook look to discover ways\u00a0of\u00a0sharing links as rapidly and in brief as possible.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Google\u2019s new URL shortening tool\u00a0transforms long links into the much shorter\u00a0http:\/\/goo.gl\/, followed by a unique mixture made\u00a0up of four letters as well as numbers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Whilst the\u00a0popularity of\u00a0goo.gl remains to be seen,\u00a0the service\u00a0could have a constructive effect on search engine optimisation.\u00a0<strong>Social networking<\/strong> and <strong>SEO<\/strong> are becoming more and more intertwined, so any service that enables quicker and easier link sharing via social platforms\u00a0is\u00a0likely to benefit SEO campaigns.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Goo.gl presently consists of just a text box and\u00a0a click button marked \u2018Shorten\u2019.Google software engineer Muthu Muthusrinivasan stated that the beauty of the service\u00a0lies in its very\u00a0simplicity.He also added that Google didnt plan to overload goo.gl with features, but that they wanted \u00a0it to be the stablest, most protected, and quickest URL shortner on the web.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google by introducing its very own URL shortening website http:\/\/goo.gl\/ has added another service to its swiftly escalating range.With its new\u00a0goo.gl site,\u00a0Google joins the likes of\u00a0bit.ly and tinyurl.com in enabling internet users to shorten long web addresses into more manageable, bite-size links. 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