Yesterday I was on the phone with a fellow photographer and we were talking shop. Now days shop talk for us is Facebook, Linkedin, SEO etc... He happened to mention taking a long website or link and shortening it or customizing it with a different name. When I first came across this a couple weeks ago, I thought I would never have a use for this website. But I was very wrong as I have already put it to use several times when attaching a hyperlink in e mails. Go to http://tinyurl.com copy the website or link you want to shorten and then paste into the window. Make sure you type the name you want to change it to in the Custom alias box. Click make Tiny url and you are done. The next page that appears will show you what the link was, and what the new link is. It will never break up in a email or expire! So have fun customizing your links to everyone.
Posts
i used to use tinyurl all the time. then i started using bit.ly because it is able to track the number of people that click and such.
ReplyDeletethen i found a wordpress plugin for my blog called pretty links. it's free and it gives me tracking PLUS my own domain as the shortlink. very helpful in terms of keeping branding and such. just fyi if you're interested ;-)