Promoters Tips-Shortening Your URL

Why have your URL shortened? Here are just a few of the many uses for URL shortening service:

Shorten web addresses for emails, forum posts, blogs etc. Especially those sites that cannot handle long URLs and might wrap them, making them not clickable.

Lets say your website is http://ca.geocities.com/mrbriguy2000/money.html
(a real website) and I don't want anyone to know it is a free website. Well I just shortened that URL to http://tinyurl.com/making-extra-money notice how I kept my main keyword.

Hide the real URLs of affiliate links from visitors to your site

Lower the number of characters when texting web addresses to a mobile phone

Hide your real email address from spam bots which use them to spam (enter an address like mailto:myaddress@myisp.com). Note these links may not work in every browser

Shorten bookmarks for sites with low character limits like Twitter.com or other social bookmarking sites.

Here is a list of the most popular URL shortening services!

Tiny URL example http://gettingwebtraffic.blogspot.com/ becomes tinyurl.com/briguy

Short Maker example http://todaysfreestuff.blogspot.com/ becomes shortmaker.com/freestuff

Short Link To example http://availableshortnamedomains.blogspot.com/ becomes shortlinkto.com/domain

Ow Ly example http://mtf-makingextramoneyonline.blogspot.com/ becomes http://ow.ly/5ZY (note visitors will have to remove frame)

Tr Im example http://makingextramoney-theeasyway.blogspot.com/ becomes http://tr.im/cos4

Bit ly example http://teens-makingextramoney.blogspot.com/ becomes http://bit.ly/iU5k also has a great "twitter" feature!

Is Gd example http://myway2fortune.info becomes http://is.gd/he3B


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