Google announced that it’s going to cease serving the Google URL Shortener, so any URL that was set as much as redirect utilizing goo.gl, which Google stopped supporting including new ones back in 2019, may also cease serving.
Beginning August 23, 2024, goo.gl hyperlinks will begin displaying an interstitial web page for a proportion of present hyperlinks to inform customers that the hyperlink will not be supported after August 25, 2025 previous to navigating to the unique goal web page. Then after August 25, 2025, the hyperlink will then 404 and never redirect to the suitable vacation spot URL.
So any redirects you could have pointing to your website utilizing goo.gl Google’s service, will die and never be counted.
As Glenn Gabe famous on X, which means billions of URLs on the internet will merely vanish and start to 404. Glenn shared how Majestic is aware of of three.6 billion goo.gl hyperlinks 36 billion historic hyperlinks in its database.
That is the Interstitial web page proven for some goo.gl hyperlinks beginning on August 23, 2024:
Right here is the Majestic report from Glenn Gabe:
Google wrote:
Over time the share of hyperlinks that can present the interstitial web page will improve till the shutdown date. This interstitial web page ought to make it easier to monitor and alter any affected hyperlinks that you will want to transition as a part of this alteration. We are going to proceed to show this interstitial web page till the shutdown date after which all hyperlinks served will return a 404 response.
Observe that the interstitial web page might trigger disruptions within the present circulate of your goo.gl hyperlinks. For instance, if you’re utilizing different 302 redirects, the interstitial web page might stop the redirect circulate from finishing accurately. For those who’ve embedded social metadata in your vacation spot web page, the interstitial web page will seemingly trigger these to not present up the place the preliminary hyperlink is displayed. Because of this, we advise transitioning these hyperlinks as quickly as doable.
Observe: Within the occasion the interstitial web page is disrupting your use circumstances, you’ll be able to suppress it by including the question param “si=1” to present goo.gl hyperlinks.
It is okay, there’s solely 3.6 billion https://t.co/VjE6xjVgSX hyperlinks that Majestic has picked up. And 36 billion traditionally. August 25 will likely be very fascinating. 🙂 pic.twitter.com/O3jUZHFQr3
— Glenn Gabe (@glenngabe) July 18, 2024
Is that this a ache for any of you? I personally will not be asking anybody with goo.gl hyperlinks to replace them for me.
Discussion board dialogue at X and WebmasterWorld.
