This is a short blogging tip. At least, a tip to shorten some of the URL’s on your blog. Are there times when you need to forward one of your URL’s to someone and it gets chopped off in the email.
There are several services available that enable you to take a long URL and shorten it considerably. These are really URL forwarding services. If your URL is something like this:
http://blogmarketingjournal.com/2008/02/04/blog-marketing-using-email-surveys/ (this is yesterdays post URL).
Using the Tiny URL service as an example, this URL of 78 characters is reduced to
http://tinyurl.com/ynklvb which is only 25 characters long.
You have to agree, 25 characters is much shorter than 78. When someone clicks on this link they go to TinyURL who then redirect them to the correct URL. It all happens in a fraction of a section so the time lag is hardly noticeable. What is lost of course is your brand – your web name is not in the URL. You will also lose link benefits if using it in comments or other possible link opportunity situations.
For emails and other activities like twitter, then a tiny URL may just be the blogging tip you need. When it comes to blog marketing – not so much.
