3 simple ways to shorten a URL link and make it easily shareable on social media and other websites

If you have a long URL, making it shorter is the best way to share it on social media and other sites. These three free tools ...
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4 reasons I host my own URL shortener

Most of us have clicked on a bit.ly or t.co link without a second thought, and these links are practically everywhere. These are known as link-shorteners, or URL-shorteners, and these services are ...
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Build Your Own URL Shortener for Security, Branding, Reliability

Thanks to the types of content management systems many news organizations use, news stories often are saddled with extremely ugly, unwieldy Web addresses (URLs). For instance: Long URLs present a ...