WP & Sociable - Branded Link shortener

This is a hack that lets us use our own shortened links as well as keep the longer Search Engine friendly links (makes the search engine think you've got 2x the pages - which helps with results).

Doing a custom short link helps prevent confusion when getting an email that says http://bit.ly/A5Fsfz8 vs. http://www.staugepiscopal.org/news/our-news-item-name-is-super-long-this-morning-and-it-cant-wrap-well-which-means -for-text-email-readers-it-would-break. Users might think it is spam or a virus site or something else if they don't see the familiar URL.

This plugin would allow us to use http://staugepiscopal.org/AS5fg01 in content that the social module spits out to places like facebook and twitter.

http://xioup.com/blog/356/make-sociable-plugin-use-your-url-shortener/

Tools: Search ability of WordPress

Another positive for WordPress is that is pretty search friendly / search optimized:

• decent internal searching of the content in the blog and pages plus both tagging and categoriziation
• easily crawlable by external search engines - they can quickly and correctly catalogue the site properly so data on our site will end up on the results
• Exposed URL naming is not "/sfsdf/adfsdf/dfsdfs/index.asp?=sdfsdafasdf&fsfgsf"  but rather "/news" that makes it easier to both remember, write and for the search engine to navigate
• while Wordpress can still have an alternate smaller name as well so you can send an even simplified link but it won't hurt external search engine from finding data.