subject: Get your Long URL short with a permanent or 301 redirect for free! [print this page] Today, when seo is an integral part of any online marketing program, writing and promoting url for search engine normally known as URL rewriting has become very popular.
With intent to put in multiple keywords in the URL to be promoted, the length of the URL is often neglected and goes long for eg. http://www.howtomakewebsite.co.in/what-makes-my-web-page-content-readable-to-google.html.
Further, sometimes we even go to an extent of adding category(s) to the url for e.g.
Now, when you go on promting these to sites like twitter and others, they imply url
length restrictions which restricts you to make this url into a small redirect which should also be a permanent or 301 redirect.
Further, most of the users are very familier of these synax, and find out the value of the page for them from the url itself which makes you loose some visitors also.
The other type of links are those which posses affiliate ids, anathor factor to which few visitors says no as they feel that they will be paying extra as they are being referred and not at the right place!
This is where application of short URL service comes in handy! Find Your Name or FYN.IM
is one such service providing short URL of pattern like http://www.fyn.im/###### where #s
