A recent feature that’s pretty exciting is the new Tweet it! bookmark. With this tool you can tweet directly from any webpage, capturing the url via idek and providing your own comment. You can actually highlight some text and that will be automatically included in your tweet as well. For the full skinny, check out this quick video on how to set get tweeting.

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Url Shorteners like idek.net are great for places where characters are at a premium. Whether that be a tweet or an SMS message. Some people have asked me how the url redirects work and how they affect SEO. This quick video gives a basic overview of 301 redirects which is what idek.net uses to get your from a short url to a long one.

Other Resources:

• URL redirection on Wikipedia
• An example analytics page from idek.net