TinyURL: This service offers a basic URL compressor and allows you to create short pronounceable links. It also provides the option to create QR codes with the shortened link. iS.gd: This tool is a basic URL compressor that allows you to create short pronounceable links and QR codes. ...
A shorter URL gives you extra space for more useful content, which can lead to more engagement and traffic to your WordPress website. That’s why URL shortener services like Bitly and TinyURL were originally created. They take a long link and make it shorter so that it doesn’t take up ...
We see a lot of shortening services around and there are many free tools that will help you create one on your domain. The logic is simple, there is a database, there is a long url and an associated short url. When someone access the short url, the long url is fetch...
Bitly is a popular URL shortener service that allows you to manage and track links. We use it to shorten our WordPress URLs and manage them. First, you will need to create aBitly account. You will need at least a Basic plan to use your own custom domain name for link shortening. After...
How is such a link share-friendly? You need shorter URLs that are shareable, memorable and – if need be – great at masking your affiliate links. Your blog post URLs could also use a littleswagging out. If you can get a branded short URL to go with that, you are golden. ...
if(UrlDict.TryAdd(shortCode, longUrl)) { break; } } returnshortCode; } Here, we first check if a URL already has a shortcode in our database. If it does, we simply return it. Otherwise, we create one for it in thewhileloop using theGenerateShortCode()method and then add it to our...
We’re all familiar with URL shorteners - those web services that take a long URL and create a tiny, unique code to make a link that is much shorter. URL shortening can be used to squeeze a link into a limited space, such as a 140-character tweet, track metrics, or make links look...
Want to allow someone to shortcut their way to a particular part of a website? Jonathan Yong, one of our Premier Field Engineers from Malaysia, shows you how!Problem: I have a url or domain that is very long! How can I create a shorter url that acts as an alias, which ma...
For those who are unfamiliar, a URL shortener is something used to make a long URL shorter in length while still sending those who click to the same/correct page. A URL shortener is typically a URL shortening service, which is why there are so many different options. Consider the below sc...
Only Administrators can create new links: this is handy if you have other people using your Google Apps domain for email and you don't want them using the URL shortening to send out their own links. If a link cannot be found, do a lowercase search ...