What Is a Url Shortener ?

What Is a Url Shortener ?

Like the origin of the word, Short linksafe which has a short or short meaning, and URL (Uniform Resource Locator) which can be interpreted as the location / address of a website page. URL Shortener can simply be interpreted as a shortened website URL (URL). Meanwhile, in a more complex sense as expressed by wikipedia, URL shortening (Shortener URL) is a technique in the World Wide Web where Uniform Resource Locator (URL) can be made substantially shorter and still redirects to the required page.

Examples of Ordinary URLs and Short URLs

The website page (URL) is very diverse, for example I took one of the pages from the website http://centralsewamobilelf.blogspot.com, which is the following page: http://centralsewamobilelf.blogspot.com . The URL is a long URL, where if you click the page, then you will be taken to one of the articles in the best student blog, the article that discusses about Internet Banking BNI.

A long URL has many shortcomings, such as manual difficulty written, hard to remember or also difficult to share because of the characters that have too much (tweet twitter for example). Hence the shortened URL or shorter URL is developed, which basically still leads to the same website page. Here I cite the short URL using google short URL. Please try to click the short URL below, then see which page you will be taken. Compare that to the long URL I shared above: Short URL:  http://goo.gl/st1kKU

From both URLs above we can see that the long URL and short URL, will eventually bring us to the same page. Short URL address certainly has some advantages such as easy rewriting (not copy paste), and has fewer characters to save space / character when it will be shared.

If you click on the link shorte and adfly link that I share above, then I as the owner of the link (who distribute), will get paid. While you yourself as a person who clicks, will not pay (spend money) at all. The fee I receive is actually very small, maybe only equivalent to $0.0001 to 0.0004, for each click. So, yes very small indeed. Especially if if no one clicks his link. Want as much as any links we pressed, if no one visited (click) then we still will not get anything.