Hiding and Shorten URL

The web address (URL) of many different forms. There are long and some short. For this short could easily be remembered by the people also do not eat too many characters to be written on the social networking services such as facebook or twitter that restrict the use of characters in a Tweet or Comment.

For that we can use websites that provide free URL shortening and without the need to register. There are several websites that provide that service. Among them are bit.ly, tinyurl.com, and ketkp.in (Indonesian version).

It's easy to shorten your URL. Here will explain how to shorten the URL in the bit.ly and tinyurl.com.

Shorten URL in Bit.ly
First, prepare URL that you want to be shorten, suppose 'http://eghojansu.blogspot.com/2010/05/hosting-share-file-di-zidducom.html' (it's long enough, isn't it? ^_^)

After that, we visit bit.ly (just click on bit.ly banner beside).

Then, enter the URL to box like below, click 'Shorten' and in a few minutes our URL will become shorter.

The URL which we entered will become like this "http://bit.ly/auPMMp", if you click on you will lead to the sam page as if you click on http://eghojansu.blogspot.com/2010/05/hosting-share-file-di-zidducom.html.


Shorten URL at Tinyurl.com
Let's go to Tinyurl.com (click at the tinyurl's logo)

We use same URL like above, http://eghojansu.blogspot.com/2010/05/hosting-share-file-di-zidducom.html.

Enter the URL to box like below,

In the picture there is circled in red, it is an alias for the address that we'll shorten. It help us to remember our address. Let's fill in the alias box with 'eghojansu' (just for example), then we click on 'Make TinyURL' and in a few minutes we have Short URL.

The URL will become like this 'http://tinyurl.com/eghojansu'.

Actually, facilities 'alias' at TinyURL, also provided in Bit.ly but we need to register for using these features 'alias'. Just try, it's free.:D

The facilities provided by TinyURL more of this. Without registering you can make Redirection Link and Hiding your URL (to hide the original link, very useful to hide the link Affiliate's ..: D)

Finally, that's all from me, hopefully useful. : D