Remember the last time you were sent a URL to someone’s website and the link in the email was broken because it was a mile long?
It might have looked something like this…
http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/ group.php?gid=158313410778&ref=ts. (The part in black is the broken part of the link.)
You obviously couldn’t follow the link in the email, so you had to copy and paste that long link, hoping it would work. It usually didn’t.
Then, if you tried to type the link in the browser bar, you probably gave up because it didn’t work.
Have you ever sent a long link like that to your business contacts? Ever wonder why your website traffic never increased? Ever wonder if your links were broken?
Ugh! Frustrating, isn’t it?
What if you could shorten and clean up that mile long URL to something that wouldn’t break in the emails or posts?
Along comes TinyURL.com
to save the day!
TinyURL.com offers a FREE service of shortening those mile long URLs to smaller…tiny…URLs.
So, you can enter a mile long URL like this http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/group.php?gid=158313410778&ref=ts
and change it to something like this
http://tinyurl.com/MLMAuthorityGroup.
Not only is the new URL shorter, but the name makes sense and is easily remembered.
I can now send an email or a Facebook message to my business contacts and use the tinyURL to invite them to my Facebook group.
I can also use the tinyURL to promote my Facebook group in blog posts, articles and Squidoo lenses. It is clean and looks more professional.
BTW, the part of the URL after “tinyurl.com/” can be generated automatically by the tinyURL software, or you can create your own “custom alias” like I did.
Get creative and use a tinyURL for a variety of websites you want to invite people to and increase your site’s traffic.
I Believe In Your Potential for Success!
Karen
mentor.karen.j.miller@gmail.com
