How To Shorten Links and Website Addresses

Sometime the links or website addresses become very long and so complicated to type in, send or remember. There are nowadays very many free services to shorten links making them suitable to SMS, email, tweet, post, simplify typing and save.

You can shorten them using Services like tiny.url or bit.ly

You can choose an optional name. And - if you have an account - you can see how many people clicked on your link using bit.ly.and others. TinyURL also lets you add a "link shortener" to your browser

Others like SnipURL also creates a list of all shortened URLs you've ever made, making them available for easy access in your "my snipURL" folder

This shortening services takes long URLs and outputs a very short one that's easy to email, include in newsletters, Post in forum and blogs or add to your own bookmarks or favorites list.

With also the growth of internet marketing where the internet marketer get  an affiliate link which is sometimes very long or sometimes holds key information of his login username, it is better to shorten the links to hide his identity details or make it easier to post his link and be able to count the number of visits his link has created.

NOTE: Article links often change. In case of a bad link, use the publication's search facility, which most have, and search for the article or headline.

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