Why to use shortened URL?

  Shortening of url is done by having a unique key replacing the long url and only when clicked on this short url its gets redirected to the actual url. Some of the known reasons for using shortened urls are for affiliate marketing, hiding urls from spammers, less characters, ease of use in emails.

  With the wide reach of internet marketing the long urls are used to bring visitors to a website directly. Most of the users doubt these long urls for spamming links and refuse to click. For others fed up of affiliate marketing campaigns discard these long urls even if they get a little doubt. On the other hand smart spammers use this long urls to redirect the visitor to the links they like to get traffic diverted to.

  Many social networking sites provide very less number of characters, so a short url would be a good alternative. In case of emails when a long url is pasted very often gets broken, when the end user clicks it may pop up an error or otherwise end user needs to patch it up to get the link right.

  ZXC9.com offers url shortening service for any url, even every web page of a website can be shortened using this service. Simple user registration procedure as usual to use the services of ZXC9.com. As the “301-redirection” by the http protocol is the most preferred redirection by search engines like Google, Yahoo which is used with short urls created with ZXC9.com. Advantage of “301-redirection” is that the link is permanently redirected to the actual url.

  Even the shortening service can be used from the user’s website by embedding the API code provided in the website. There are not many urls shortening service websites who provide the click statistics for the shortened urls. The statistics are an added advantage for the affiliate marketers as they can easily track the links that have brought most number of visitors or as they term “traffic”. More traffic means more revenue for the marketers.

  Not just affiliate marketers, anyone can use this service to shorten any url to look compact and avoid spammers taking undue favors.