10 Simple Usage Of Short Web Address
10 Simple Usage Of Short Web Address by: William R. Nabaza of
http://www.Nabaza.com
1. Use short web addresses to clean "dirty" urls. An example of
a dirty url is this:
http://www.google.com.ph/search?q=nabaza&sourceid=mozilla-search&
start=0&start=0&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozill
a:en-US:official
Dirty urls consists of punctuations, hyphens, equal sign, colon,
amperstand, even it's technology is clearly exposed such as
:"utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official"
To clean it means to cloak, hide, protect and shorten it like
so: http://w1n.org/nabaz
2. Protect your affiliate commissions. For example this is my
affiliate url on adreporting:
http://www.adreporting.com/dir.php?a=160691&p=1&w=w1norg_referral
this is the same url when shortened: http://w1n.org/adr
3. Remove file extensions for secrecy and search-engine
friendliness. This is my services page:
http://www.nabaza.com/services.htm when cleaned it looks like
this: http://w1n.org/svcs
4. Add guessable entry point urls for your prospects and
clients. Don't punish them. Do you know what is this page all
about? http://www.Nabaza.com/what.htm how about if we make it
like this: http://w1n.org/svcs I guess it's a services page. :)
5. Avoid punctuations on your url. Underscores sometimes can't
be seen especially urls are treated like links and they are
underlined. Make it easy for them. Take a look at this:
http://w1n.org/nabaz view the source and you will see the
punctuations.
6. You can still point people to a dynamic page without
revealing your server type wheteher it's windows or unix server
simply by using a url shortener like http://w1n.org/
7. Avoid the long, and deep directory urls like so:
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/1998/nsf9814/nsf9814.htm when you can
turn it into this: http://w1n.org/nsf
8. Stop punishing your visitors when they accessed your urls
outside their homes most probably on an internet cafes, do you
like them to type it all or use a shortener?
9. Avoid and block the competition's url especially when you
need to quote them in your messages, use a short url.
10. If you have long urls which fetches dynamic pages and can't
be avoided, use a url shortener so it can be included on .xml or
rss reader without producing any errors.
For all of these, you can benefit using http://www.w1n.org/ - We
all w1n here and you are f1rst.
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