Today on Script School radio show #209 at 2pm PST / 5pm EST / 10pm GMT we’re going to be discussing the steps required for how to create your own URL shortening service. notlong.com provides a nice breakdown of what different features some of these type sites offer:

The free web sites below can take a long URL and give you back a shorter URL without requiring registration. Since these sites forward a click from one link to another, they are also known as URL forwarders and some do subdomain forwarding.

I also like to refer to them as mini-URL redirection services but whatever you call them, they all function basically the same: they take a really long URL and provide a much shorter alternative. I’ve already got my URL registered for my version of this type service! Much easier saying a short name on a radio show than it is rattling off a long one. That’s going to be my main use for the service and I’m going to share with listeners how I’m building the program.

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