Do url shorteners effect site traffic by not being search friendly?

1	Im just curious if web crawlers can interpret shorted links like search friendly links. web url site trafic shortners crawler asked Jun 19 '10 at 11:01 CiphersSon (suspended) edited Jun 20 '10 at 23:30 chadt4 12.5k●99●157●257

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They should be able to. I know that some crawlers look into the code of web pages.

answered Jun 20 '10 at 23:36

blackbird307
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So if www.example.com/whats-with-url-shorteners is turned in to bit.ly/RhGrGh google will still see the the "whats-with-url-shorteners" part of the url?

(Jun 21 '10 at 00:11) CiphersSon

I really am not too sure, this is a good question. I would like to know aswell.

(Jun 21 '10 at 01:21) blackbird307

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