Comments on: Online Tools: Why Link Shorteners Stink http://craftedwebmaster.com/01/online-tools-why-link-shorteners-stink/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=online-tools-why-link-shorteners-stink Sun, 09 Oct 2011 13:40:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Nicolette Tallmadge http://craftedwebmaster.com/01/online-tools-why-link-shorteners-stink/#comment-370 Nicolette Tallmadge Fri, 12 Feb 2010 22:17:35 +0000 http://www.craftedweb.com/website-maintenance/online-tools-why-link-shorteners-stink/#comment-370 @Clint Watson Excellent! Thanks for sharing your experience! @Clint Watson

Excellent! Thanks for sharing your experience!

]]> By: Clint Watson http://craftedwebmaster.com/01/online-tools-why-link-shorteners-stink/#comment-369 Clint Watson Fri, 12 Feb 2010 19:04:51 +0000 http://www.craftedweb.com/website-maintenance/online-tools-why-link-shorteners-stink/#comment-369 Well we got lucky as our Original domain is too long (http://FineArtStudioOnline.com) - we became know as "FASO" and I've been able to secure the domains http://faso.com and http://faso.us - so we used http://faso.us and it's worked great. It kind of evolved into a social bookmarking kind of site that we keep working on and hope to release to general use. You can see the shared links at http://canvoo.com/buzz If you have a pretty short domain - it's not that hard for a programmer to create one. Of course it depends on the traffic you expect - if it's a lot of traffic it could overwhelm a single server (we use load balanced clusters). For stuff I don't care as much about we still use http://bit.ly - I don't think bit.ly will be going away as they are so dominant and so close with twitter. You could also look into the google link shortner (I think it's http://goo.gl) I don't know if their's is open to general public yet though. Well we got lucky as our Original domain is too long (http://FineArtStudioOnline.com) – we became know as “FASO” and I’ve been able to secure the domains http://faso.com and http://faso.us – so we used http://faso.us and it’s worked great. It kind of evolved into a social bookmarking kind of site that we keep working on and hope to release to general use. You can see the shared links at http://canvoo.com/buzz

If you have a pretty short domain – it’s not that hard for a programmer to create one. Of course it depends on the traffic you expect – if it’s a lot of traffic it could overwhelm a single server (we use load balanced clusters).

For stuff I don’t care as much about we still use http://bit.ly – I don’t think bit.ly will be going away as they are so dominant and so close with twitter. You could also look into the google link shortner (I think it’s http://goo.gl) I don’t know if their’s is open to general public yet though.

]]> By: Nicolette Tallmadge http://craftedwebmaster.com/01/online-tools-why-link-shorteners-stink/#comment-368 Nicolette Tallmadge Fri, 12 Feb 2010 17:45:49 +0000 http://www.craftedweb.com/website-maintenance/online-tools-why-link-shorteners-stink/#comment-368 @Clint Watson Looks like I'm going down that route too....switching services is a pain and I don't want to go through that again. How is your own service doing? Any thoughts? Good results? @Clint Watson

Looks like I’m going down that route too….switching services is a pain and I don’t want to go through that again. How is your own service doing? Any thoughts? Good results?

]]> By: Clint Watson http://craftedwebmaster.com/01/online-tools-why-link-shorteners-stink/#comment-367 Clint Watson Fri, 12 Feb 2010 13:48:10 +0000 http://www.craftedweb.com/website-maintenance/online-tools-why-link-shorteners-stink/#comment-367 This is exactly why we built our own in house url shortener last year. This is exactly why we built our own in house url shortener last year.

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