April 10, 2014

Best Practice: Create Your Own Link Shortener to Share Content

By Minal Bopaiah Most of us are familiar with free link shortening services, like bit.ly and tinyURL. Link shorteners can be an easy way to condense URLs for social media and even email marketing. But is it rely on free services? In this week’s Members-Only How-To, we outline 3 advantages to using link shorteners, as well as six potential problems. For those who are unfamiliar with link shorteners, or URL shorteners, they are a tech innovation that converts…

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Pick the Best Link Shortener for Your Business — 3 Advantages, 4 Vendor Reviews and Best Practices

Lengthy, keyword-rich URLs might work well to drive organic search traffic to your subscription site and associated blog, but they’re absolutely terrible for email and social media platforms like Twitter. So, for those purposes, most publishers use link shorteners. In this How-To, we explore three advantages to using link shorteners, six potential problems, offer best practice recommendations, including a 5-minute fix, and review four popular vendors.

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