Do not rely too much on TinyURL

I’ve noticed that many webmasters become very obsessed with Tinyurl.com services. Of course, I can’t deny that tinyurl indeed provide very useful service for all of us. But there are many alternatives available too.

Why shouldn’t you rely on TinyURL?

Do you know that if you solely rely only on TinyURL.com for URL shortening services, if it faces technical difficulties, then all your links could become broken. If you google for tinyurl.com reported outrage, you can find it happened already.

Shouldn’t you use URL shortening services at all?

Of course not. URL shortening services help us a lot. Making our life a lot easier by not having to post longer url. Also keep our affiliate links save from danger hand. I’m not saying you shouldn’t use URL shortening services, but I’m suggesting that if you use URL shortening services, don’t use tinyurl.com for all your links. Try to make balanace with many alternatives out there.

Where are the alternatives?

Here are my favourites. You can google for many more.

• Decent URL
• Elf URL
• SN URL

I have no reason to be against Tinyurl.com. I am just giving you all to avoid disaster. Better safe than sorry!!

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