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We all know some of the well known URL-shortening services such asTinyURLor Twitter’s own Bit.ly.
MakeUseOf has also profiled many otherURL shortenersin the past.
A better solution, if you have a Google Apps-run domain, is a service calledGoogle Short Apps.
This immediately puts a new link on your Google Apps Dashboard.
You’ll see on the screenshot, the URLhttp://tinylinks.markoneill.org.
That isn’t there on your Dashboard immediately.
So, the next step is to customise things the way you want them.
Go to theService Settingsat the top of the Apps Dashboard page and chooseShort Links.
The first option you will see is naming your URL service.
As I said, I chose “tinylinks” but you could choose whatever you want.
But being a short URL, make your choice as small as possible.
I initially contemplated “tl” but I wanted to give my shortening service a proper name.
Saying that, it’s possible for you to have as many links as you want.
The other options are not reallythatimportant, such as enabling API access and creating IP Whitelists.
There are a couple of good options though that you should consider.
So a link to MakeUseOf could be calledhttp://tinylinks.markoneill.org/makeuseof(click it, it works).
You are also provided with bookmarklets which you could drag up to your internet tool toolbar.
The last feature I should mention is the stats page.
Plus you get little Apps goodies like Short Links.
Setting up on Google Apps is also very easy and can be done in under 30 minutes.
I showed you how to do ithere.
Which URL shortening service do you use?
Do you use Google Short Links?
If so, what has been your experience with it?
