URL Shortening Services Are Holding You Hostage - Fight Back!
One of the most useful tools to come along in recent years for online marketers is URL shorteners. There are sites where you can paste a long, ugly URL into a form, and the site will give you a much shorter URL to use in your emails, newsletters and promotions. There are also scripts that you can install on your server, that allow you to generate your own shortened urls, which is what I prefer, due to the great control it gives you. In-case you are not using the tiny urls, you're probably losing a lot of sales and traffic. The benefits of using shortened urls typically include: - They allow you to conserve space when posting to micro- blogging platforms such as Twitter, where each of your posts is limited to a mere 140 characters. - They look more professional than long, unwieldy affiliate urls (especially if they have your own domain name in them). Longer urls can wrap to two lines in your emails, forcing many readers to copy and paste the pieces of the link before they can visit...