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URL Shortener That Does Website Sharing and Tracking

 As affiliate marketers, we know that those affiliate referral links can be very long. We also know that we have to market what we are promoting on micro-blogging engines like Twitter, and wherever there is a popular social networking site that has a status update field. Facebook allows status updates. Space is limited, and many of these long URLs, or website domain names, take up all or part of that limited space. I use Bit.ly to shorten my website referral links. There are many URL shortening services, but with Bit.ly the URL is shorten more than what would occur with other services, plus, the shortened website domain name does not expire. It is your shortened URL to keep forever. There is more to Bit.ly than just being a service that shortens website domain names. On the bit.ly website, the shortened URL can be shared with Twitter. You just click the "share" button under the link. Along with the shortened URL, a message can posted as well. When you click the "copy&quo
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What to Do When Your URL Shortening Provider Goes Out of Business

 I woke up one Saturday morning and followed my normal Saturday morning routine. I cranked up the trusty computer and began to check my email inbox. Immediately I saw a few emails telling me my site and/or sites were down. I quickly checked my sites, I have quite a few, and they were all opening up just fine. That left only a couple of possibilities. Ether some of my sites had actually been down, but were now back up, or the URL shortening service I use was down. Worse case scenario would be they are out of business. Since I have a lot of sites that I market, some of which are Affiliate sites I use URL shortening services to both cloak my affiliate Ids and to provide important traffic statistics. The URL shortening services provide a valuable service in shortening long URLs and many provide tracking services. Since their primary reason for being is URL shortening, their names are often quite short. You will find name like: Bit.ly, TinyURL, Is.gd and like that. They are really growing i
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