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July 29, 2005
Review of ShortURL .com service
Last week I mentioned how the Truro Daily News (local paper) mangled my URL in the ad. I thought it would be a quick matter to get one of those free redirects to make the URL much shorter.
The first place I went to was ShortURL.com. I used there service once before a few years ago. I noted on their website I would have to wait 3 days for the free URL, but since it was last Friday when I applied for it, I didn't think that was too much to ask for.
Well... maybe it was...
Monday would have been three days, but the URL still hadn't been activated. Oh, I thought, maybe they mean three working days. I thought if it was activated by Wednesday I would still be able to get my ad in the paper last week.
They emailed me about it today.
They said it was an affiliate URL. This isn't true at all.
Then they told me I would have to pay for it because it was an affiliate URL.
You can see where this is going and how long it might take to get resolved.
So I went to webalias.com and got a short re-direct URL for free and activated in 5 minutes. It does display a small popup, but in order for me to use the free service from ShortURL there was a small banner I would have to display.
Naturally, my opinion is that if you need a short URL to do some testing and quick promotional campaign, you would be wise to avoid using ShortURL.com.
Posted by Steve MacLellan at July 29, 2005 09:51 AM
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