http://retirerichroadmap.com/blog Helping You Retire Rich & Retire Early Mon, 06 Dec 2010 04:21:56 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 http://retirerichroadmap.com/blog/top-url-shortener/ http://retirerichroadmap.com/blog/top-url-shortener/#comments Tue, 02 Jun 2009 18:59:05 +0000 Mikael http://retirerichroadmap.com/blog/?p=349 There are many reasons for using URL shorteners but the first and primary reason is to take long URLs and make them shorter. This is especially true if you are running Wordpress blogs where you will automatically get a pretty long URL if the title of your blog post is long as Wordpress takes your title and adds dashes between the words. You can easily change this manually but most people don’t (I normally forget it myself). You have probably heard of the free service called Tinyurl that was one of the first services online that would make you take a long URL, enter it into a box, click a button and generate a new and shorter URL. However, since then there are lots and lots of new and similar free tools available and Hongkiat has created a... Read more

]]> There are many reasons for using URL shorteners but the first and primary reason is to take long URLs and make them shorter. This is especially true if you are running Wordpress blogs where you will automatically get a pretty long URL if the title of your blog post is long as Wordpress takes your title and adds dashes between the words. You can easily change this manually but most people don’t (I normally forget it myself). You have probably heard of the free service called Tinyurl that was one of the first services online that would make you take a long URL, enter it into a box, click a button and generate a new and shorter URL. However, since then there are lots and lots of new and similar free tools available and Hongkiat has created a... Read more

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