Shorten Your URLs or Links

In this post, I want to discuss with you one of the most important tools to consider for bloggers, twitter users, etc. You might have heard about URL shortening tools which are free and simple to use. This system proved to be very effective over the past years. While posting articles, it's very natural that you have to include URLs or links for various purposes. These may be short or link.

Normally, the affiliate links, URLs of particular pages etc. seem to be very long and may frustrate the readers or visitors when the see them on the status bar of their browsers. The use of URL shortener comes here as it helps to make your link very precise irrespective of the length of your original link.

Two of my favorite URL shortening tools are Bit.ly and TinyURL. Currently, I use bit.ly shortener for posting links in my twitter account. Url shortening tools are very common and they are very simple to use.

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In the case of Bit.ly, what you have to do is just insert the link (the link you want to shorten) and just press the 'shorten' Button. Done. You can see the shortened URL just below your original URL. Now you can use this URL wherever you want to share you pages, affiliate links, etc. These tools are very effective in sharing web pages and articles in a large number of social networking and bookmarking sites.
For Example : This is the shortened URL of my blog's home page : bit.ly/anH2H


* * * Remember : Shortened URLs seem to be useless (sometimes dangerous) in special areas like dedicated forums, etc. Last time, I got suspended from Digital Forums for 7 days for posting a shortened link with in my thread. In order to protect the user interests, use of shortened URLs and links are strictly prohibited in the forum. Because shortened URLs leave no clue about where they are pointing. In this case, the probability of spamming is maximum and overuse of Affiliate links lead to many problems and it makes your thread worthless.