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Are you using a link shortener yet for your web page links and affiliate links? Otherwise, you should be! And it’s easy to do.
You can decide to work with a web-based link shortener like TinyURL, Bit.ly or ShortURL. Or, you can install the GoCodes plugin for WordPress or possibly a free URL shortener service script like Shorty on your own domain and stay in control of your affiliate links. Using your own domain as the base for your short links lets you build links to your web site, build your brand, and be in control of where the links are pointing to.
You will find three important reasons I suggest bloggers and online business people shorten their links.
They make it simpler to share on social networks.
Especially on Twitter, where you only have 140 characters to discuss your thoughts, every character counts! A long URL will take up half of your space if you aren’t careful. By shortening the link you give yourself more room to “talk” as well as make it easier for others to retweet your tweet and share it with their followers.
Facebook, LinkedIn, and other social networks in addition have limits on how many characters long each of your status updates may be. Do not waste your space with long URLs.
They enable you to protect your affiliate links and update as needed.
If you promote affiliate products, you want to protect your affiliate links so that you get credit for the sales you make reference to a goods and services.
With a regular affiliate link, you might have something like somedomain ? yourcodehere that is easy for someone to just go direct to the domain. Worse but, unscrupulous marketers may grab your tweet or status update from a social network and share it – but with their code in place of yours! Using a shortened link prevents someone from conveniently eliminating your affiliate code. Keep in mind, they can still switch out the link completely, but why make it easy for them?
Another circumstance that shortened links you may control are good for is for anybody who is promoting affiliate products as well as your recommendation changes. Should you have a link of yourdomain / bestwebhost and today you are promoting SuperHost123, you may use your shortened link to point there. If SuperHost123 goes out of business or you find a better option at BestHost789 you can easily change your link to point to your new recommendation–and the same short link still works.
You can track your links to find out what’s getting clicked.
Using some link shorteners provides you with a simple way to track how many clicks your links are getting. With HootSuite’s link shortner, if you choose ow.ly to shorten with, you can easily access statistics on how many times your link was clicked and when. Using the GoCodes plugin for WordPress also enables you to find out how many times your links have been clicked.