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There are quite a lot of URL Shortener like Tiny URL, which comes in handy to have a shorther URL for those long and length ones. But we have got a new service, bit.ly that integrates many service and stands out from among the rest.
A lengthy URL like , http://books24x7.blogspot.com/search/label/For%20Dummies is been shortened to http://bit.ly/fordummies using bit.ly
A mirror copy of the target webpage is created at the time this service is called to shorten the URL by bit.ly as cache. This means even if the target page is offline or been removed, the same would be availabe via bit.ly cache. At the end what this would mean is there won’t be any Orphan page via bit.ly link. As you see the example here, this shows you that bit.ly is using Amazon’s S3 servers to store the copied page.
You have a better count on the number of times a particular link is clicked from your web page.Example
Other than the count of clicks for any particular link, you also know where the clicks originates from.Example
And in case you’re are wondering what .ly stands for in Bit.ly ,this is the country domain extension for Libya.
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