Blogging For Money

Many websites have very long URLs for their articles, especially more so with blogs that rely on automated permalinks which reuse their titles. For example, a URL can be as follows:

http://www.bismikaallahuma.org/archives/2008/resolving-the-christian-i-know-nothing-multi-problem-in-textual-criticism/

Such long URLs can actually break if you try to repost them in forums or e-mails. So what is the solution? You use a URL shortener, of course! With a URL shortener, the long URL example I gave above can easily be shortened into:

http://7les.com/2bb

Short and sweet, right?

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We all use URL shorteners, including bit.ly and tr.im for when we need a short URL for Twitter. But, we don’t realize how many other options are out there which might be better. Today I found 7Les.com, a URL shortener with a nice calming blue style which is friendly to anyone, URL tracking features and so much more. I thought to myself well why is this not the most used URL shortening service? It should be it has the best stylesheet and the best tracking features. But really who is to believe that I am not just saying this?

I thought I would try tracking a URL, first you have to sign up to the site so that you can track your URL’s wherever you are you can track the clicks on your shortened link. The intelligent design of the site made it so easy for me to find out how to track clicks. Unlike other services if you don’t want the link anymore for any reason there is a simple “delete” button something that you might want to do for any reason. Also it was easy & simple when I was signing up for an account to track my URL’s.

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