URL shortening services are ubiquitous on Twitter and other cramped online spaces. They won't all last, as tr.im has demonstrated, and their shutdowns could annihilate your linking history. If you own ...

You can shorten a URL by using an URL shortener website, which will shrink your URL for free. Popular link shorteners on the internet include Bitly, TinyURL, and Rebrandly. You'll need a premium ...

Other benefits to having your own custom short URL are things like consistent branding and increased link trust – no one likes clicking on random links, so knowing it comes from a trusted source goes ...

There’s been a flurry of news in the world of URL shortening of late. Google finally released its Goo.gl to the public, and not long after vb.ly was pulled for violating Islamic Sharia law. Not too ...

Personally, I change outdated, harmful or lengthy web addresses (a.k.a., URLs) when updating existing content quite often. Why? Let me explain. What did Google’s John Mueller say about changing URLs ...

Popular social networking sites like Twitter have a character limit for user posts. Due to the popularity of Twitter, domains like TinyURL and Is.Gd -- sites that abbreviate URLs -- began to pop up.