What is this all about? This is about shortening your URL so you can have less characters on the link. It makes us easier to post on blogs or forums, make email friendly URLs, simplify links to your website and hide an affiliate link.
There’re lots of URL shortener on the web, let’s just take an example, we’re gonna try http://z.pe here. Follow these steps :
1. Prepare the url you want to shorten, i have an example :
http://www.facebook.com/xnyss
2. Go to http://bit.ly/
2. Put the long url to the textbox
3. Click Shorten It!
4. There you go, you will get the shortened URL : http://on.fb.me/mroG2G
5. You can even make it shorter again by removing the http: protocol, so http://on.fb.me/mroG2G will be come on.fb.me/mroG2G
Additionally, here are some url shortener service you can use :
- http://is.gd
- http://goo.gl/
- http://bit.ly/
- http://goo.gl/
- http://bit.ly/
- and you can find many more on the web..