How to Make a Short Url Longer and Larger
October 22nd, 2007I was recently emailed a rather long url by a friend and when I clicked on it, it redirected to my site! Though there are so many services to make a url shorter, there are web services to make urls longer and larger than you can imagine.
Clicking on that url takes you to quickonlinetips.com! This url is created by a service called Hugeurl, in which you enter your url and you can create this very long url to amaze your friends.
Problems with long urls
But remember that long urls posted directly without hyperlinking into blog comments can often break the blog template (so I sometimes edit blog comments to hyperlink such long urls). Also many form fields may not allow urls beyond a particular length and cut off the url after the limit – leading to a 404 url. Also long urls posted directly tend to break spaces and make the url 404 again.
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this was funny.. :)
till now my friends used to avoid reading my blog but now when I will post such kind of URL on my orkut profile than I am sure many will be reading… ;)
Pchere,
You do say that you edit comments for these long URI’s. I would recommend the Chunk URLs plugin to prevent that..
http://www.village-idiot.org/archives/2006/06/29/wp-chunk/
It simply shortens anything beyond the comment area boundaries!
Pardon me if i am being thick but what are the benefits of having a long URL?
I like to use http://www.stopurl.com
i use http://uris.us
INTURL controls Spam. http://inturl.com
TwistUrl.com is a new service that lets you take long URLs and turn them into very short ones. How many times have you received an email with a huge link to a URL or had to send one to someone causing the recipient to have to cut and paste it back together?
TwistUrl.com eliminates that problem. Create a Twist URL that won’t break in email postings and will never expire.
TwistUrl.com is Absolutely free,
http://www.twisturl.com
Have difficulties with never-ending URLs? Diggurl will solve all your problems.
Visit http://www.diggurl.com to create shortened/redirected URLs to any long URL.
# Free! No registration required.
# Manage your shortened URLs.
# Set temporary download links and protect them with password.
# Hide your URLs from search engines and bots.
# Cleaner bookmarks in your web browsers.
# Continuous URLs in emails.
# AJAX interface;
# Bulk URL shortening;
# Password-protected URLs;
# Temporary URLs;
# Custom tags;
# Custom tags for bulk URLs (automatically assigned tags like tag1, tag2, tag3 and so on);
# Redirects statistic – referer domain, referer page, visitor’s IP (+ link to geographical information about each visitor), date;
# URLs and hits statistics can be seen even without registration (IP-based authorization);
# Registered users: edit/delete URLs;
# Mass upload URLs from file;
# Export links to CSV file;
I use http://www.whylong.com
The name is perfect, and the creation is REALLY fast and simple!