2/29/2024 0 Comments Bit ly homescape generator![]() ![]() But if you create a short-link for future reference, I ask you to humanize it - no I implore you! Don’t let your friends, fans and customers face these vile aberrations. Not only can you choose any human-readable text for you link, you even get statistics about how many people actually click/type in that URL. Luckily, bit.ly allows you to customize your shortlinks, free of charge, resulting in links that look like this: ![]() (I’m aware that it’s not a lot of work per se to enter a string of 8 characters, but compared to just making one click, it certainly is.) It has happened to me a number of times over the past few months that I stumbled over these short (but still horrible links) offline: in greeting cards, paperback books, etc.Īnd I always asked myself: who would actually type in these cryptic strings? Since the URL doesn’t consist of a simple human-readable word, it takes some concentration to get the link right, checking and double checking yourself with each character.īy using these shortened (but cryptic) links you can guarantee that some people will never visit the link, simply because it’s too much of a hassle. It’s short and compact - but what if you want to use the URL offline or somewhere else where the link can not be clicked but has to be copied (or worse: typed manually) into the address bar of your browser? Customize Your Linkįriends Don’t Let Friends Type In Garbled Shortlinks So, let’s say we have a URL that looks like this:īy using a link shortener such as bit.ly we could tame the beast so that it looks like this:Īnd for sharing that link around the web, in instant messages, Twitter, etc. Here are some examples of URLs that would doubtlessly benefit from some shortening and beautifying. ![]() Whether it’s bit.ly, tinyurl, or another service, URL shortening has risen in popularity together with Twitter, where every character counts and the only good link is a short link.īut besides shortening, another reason for using short links is to beautify long and ugly URLs. Shortlinks have been with us for a number of years now. ![]()
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