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Hello world. This time I will introduce a technique that creates a short url from your long web URL. Like this one:
This link is a shortened URL of http://arnelirobles.blogspot.com/ . If you try to click these URLs, you end up at the same location.
This is achieved by doing a technique called URL shortening - "a technique on the World Wide Web in which a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) may be made substantially shorter in length and still direct to the required page" (taken from http://goo.gl/r54bB).
Actually, URLs aren't really shortened. It uses short HTTP redirect on a domain name which links to a web page with a long URL. This is often used in Twitter.
Now to shorten your URL you need a URL shortening service. I used the Google URL Shortener. There are lots of URL Shortening services on the web like TinyUrl.com, XR.com, and Tiny.cc just to name a few.
Even Mozilla firefox has an addon that enables you to create shortened URLs. However, I do not prefer this since it redirects to another site before the intended site. You may visit their wesite at this link http://goo.gl/HUxPZ.
For a detailed list of URL Shortening Services you may visit http://goo.gl/0z2nq/.
God bless everyone!
Even Mozilla firefox has an addon that enables you to create shortened URLs. However, I do not prefer this since it redirects to another site before the intended site. You may visit their wesite at this link http://goo.gl/HUxPZ.
For a detailed list of URL Shortening Services you may visit http://goo.gl/0z2nq/.
God bless everyone!