Review Me Today!

For those who might not know, a URL stands for Uniform Resource Locator and it is the address of any page on the internet. Some URL’s are quite short. One I visit frequently is ATT.com. Other URLs are very, very long. Like the path to the free eBook I will be linking to in the next few days. (Sorry, I just don’t have time to get that all set up tonight!)
Not only is the URL long, there are lots of reasons why I don’t want the world to know the path structure of my blogs, so for this link I am going to be using TinyURL.

At TinyURL., you put your long URL in a textbox, push a button, and out comes a short URL. The short URL will start with TinyURL.com, but will link to your page with the long URL.
One thing that makes TinyURL. very useful is that you can specify what you want your tinyurl to be, after the /. So you could have a url that reads tinyurl.com/myfantasticwebpage, as long as no one else is using that particular tiny url.

The two main reasons to use tinyurl, is if you want to hide your link. If like me, you don’t want to show the long path, or maybe you want to hide an affiliate link. The other reason is so you can have a shorter, easier to remember web address. Just think if you are trying to give someone a webaddress over the phone. Would you like to be saying, “dub, dub,dub, dot, reviewme dot today dot com forwardslash uploads forwardslash ebooks forwardslash coolstuff forwardslash free forwardslash finallywerehere.” Or would you rather be saying “dub, dub,dub,dot tinyurl dot com forwardslash myfantasticwebpage.”
(Either way they are going to ask you which one is the forwardslash!”)

Now whatever you don’t, don’t go using tinyurl for spam. That is against the rules, plus nobody likes it.

Don’t forget to check back over the next few days for a free ebook and to see tinyurl.com in action.

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