Intro
As a blogger or Web content creator, sometimes your post titles are very long thereby creating a long URL.

Adding such URLs on some social media platforms such as Twitter becomes a problem (due to the 140 character content length).‎

URL Shortening
URL shortening is a technique on the Internet in which a URL may be made substantially shorter in length and still direct to the required page.

This is achieved by using a redirect on a domain name that is short, which links to the web page that has a long URL.

Benefits of using a URL/Link shortener
Link portabilty: Copying a long URL can be tricky sometimes --especially when the link is so long that dots (...) are automatically added. Copying such link from a site to another may be incompletely done thereby generating a "404 not found" error. A shortened link such as "ow.ly/2frEs" is preferable in suc situation.
Security: Due to the privacy surveillance by the government on all internet traffics, you definitely wouldn't want to leave your fingerprints on the Web while surfing and most URL shortening services provide such functionality.
Monetization: There is no questioning how online adverts has made some people rich and you too can tap from such opportunity --even without owning a blog-- and make some cool money. Most link shortening services support such feat
Web traffic: This was meant to be part of the first feature but I had to split it for this particular reason; Shortening URLs beautify such URL and since most URL shortening services are popular and look "catchy" to the eye, a visitor will love to click on it more than on the full, very long URL.
In conclusion, if you've found this article interesting go ahead and start shortening links and make some money while driving good traffic to your website/blog.

Examples or URL/ link shortening services available include: , ow.ly, , , etc.

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