Comments on: How to Host Your own Short URLs

By: kauai

kauai — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 03:30:06 +0000

The mac has a great multiple clipboard tool called CopyPaste Pro that has a link shortener built in so you just highlight click a button and you have the short URL in the clipboard to paste anywhere.
http://www.scriptsoftware.com/copypaste

Also it is just as essential as the clipboard itself. Seriously useful.

By: chuck

chuck — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 20:44:31 +0000

I agree on this. On very important pages where I want to promo the link, I create my own “tinyurl” for maximum exposure. I use a 5 digit domain and create my own folders such as
http://xxxxx.com/folder (where xxxxx = 5 digit domain name & folder = promo word) and set a redirect if necessary to the landing page. This allows me to “promo” the link.

BTW, tinyurl passes along page rank to you – they use 301 permanent redirect.

Chuck

By: amber of theambershow

amber of theambershow — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 04:32:30 +0000

I’ve always manually cross posted on twitter like this: “On my blog: Blog Title – a short description of what the post is about. tiny url.”

I’m afraid of anything more complicated, usually, but I’ll try it.

By: Dream Lane

Dream Lane — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 14:22:10 +0000

Very informative post, thanks a lot!

By: Alex Schleber

Alex Schleber — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 07:20:27 +0000

Here is a better, though slightly more labor intensive (initially) solution using a separate tweaked WP install:

http://3on.us/roll-tinyurl

(the link itself is an example of what the redirect engine/url shorterner will look like, obviously with your own short domain)

By: Vincent Chow

Vincent Chow — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 16:13:34 +0000

Here’s a way to have short URL using your WordPress blog domain, without the need of any plugins: http://www.sheeptech.com/wordpress-ugly-permalink-as-short-url-for-twitter

By: Nucleocide

Nucleocide — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 01:33:13 +0000

Sometimes, using a URL masking service such as http://ezlink.info/ provides a good way to hide the destination. Sure this destroys SEO but often times you just don’t want the visitors to see where they are going (e.g. URL hacking).

By: Ari Herzog

Ari Herzog — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 03:35:04 +0000

Intriguing idea, something I never considered for the BLOG side.

But here’s a question, maybe someone out there has a better solution that the status quo:

I habitually tweet my new blog posts upon publication. I have a separate broadcast-only feed at @ariwriterdotcom, where tinyurls are formed out of twitterfeed.

I’d like cut down on the tinies. Is there a way to tweet the same url for both without waiting the time to pass for twitterfeed to update itself?

By: Matt Gio | TheOvernightSite.com

Matt Gio | TheOvernightSite.com — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 16:59:36 +0000

This is a killer plugin. I didn’t realize that links in Twitter could count as good links for your blog or website. Now I know and now I installed! Thanks Darren

By: Hector A. Henry S.

Hector A. Henry S. — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 16:02:30 +0000

Yes you give a good point of view of what we would like to do, but juts imagine that the are person that juts know to menage wordpress and that its a hard job, but there are other that need to contract people to administer ther own page so i don’t see how they will do to implement this.

But at the same time its good that they try something new to a track more people to your blog.