Short (encrypted, shortened, coded) links are necessary today for both advanced users and ordinary Internet users. For example, in online communication, people often exchange links to various sites or web pages. Sometimes links are long, which makes them unreadable. To get rid of this problem, special short link services were created.
It is necessary
- - a computer;
- - access to the Internet.
Instructions
Step 1
The service of short links can greatly facilitate the work with blogs, forums, news sites, where there is a limit on the amount of text. You can also rename links to discordant or specialized Internet resources to others that you deem more appropriate.
Step 2
Such links will come in handy for the online microblogging service - Twitter, in which the message has a valid limit of 140 characters, including spaces. A long link can make the message unforgettable, so you have to split it into 2 messages. Other microblogging services usually should not exceed the message length of 160 characters - this is the length of a standard SMS message.
Step 3
In some cases, it is necessary to hide affiliate links, since about 20 percent of users "cut" them, and because of this, affiliate rewards are not paid. If you are promoting any affiliate program, using short links can increase your profits by about 20 percent.
Step 4
The principle of creating short links is very simple. First, copy the long link you want to shrink in the browser line. To do this, select it and, by right-clicking, select the "Copy" command from the context menu.
Step 5
Paste the copied url into the window on the main page of the short link service. Then press the enter button to the left or right of this window, or simply press the Enter key on your computer keyboard. The desired short link will appear below.
Step 6
One of the Russian-language short link services is the Speed-Tester. Info resource. Go to https://speed-tester.info/url_redirect.php for the short link / redirect service and anonymous link generator. Enter long url in the corresponding field.
Step 7
In the next field, enter the desired short name to mask the long link. If its name is not important to you, skip this step. Then enter the security code - the sum of the indicated numbers in numbers. Click the Create Link button. After that, among the generated generated options, select the one that you like best.
