Recently I saw a post on Searchengineland.com regarding which URL shortening service to use to allow your visitors to tweet your blog posts. Basically this post compares the url shortening services in detail and list out the pros and cons of using each of them. Excellent post! But even though I read it from top to bottom, I AM NOT HAPPY TO USE ANY OF THOSE SERVICES …

Getting a link from a web site is very tough today. Say I tweet my posts or the visitors of this site tweet the blog posts … What happens if the ul shortening service goes down? This was my main concern. I want a link that brings me the visitors not show them some 404 error …

I googled for a plug-in that creates short urls for my posts. I came up with few plug-ins.

I installed couple of them. But one is not working with Wordpress 2.9.x version and one doesn’t have 301 redirects. So I thought why can’t I use the wordpress ugly urls to tweet my blog posts?

So here is the code that I am using on this blog:

Now I have got my own URLs from my blog …

Advantages of having own short urls:

* Get backlinks pointing to Your domain.
* Even though the post is changed still the url works.
* Simple to implement.
* No need to canonical redirects.
* No stress that third party sevices will go offline leaving your links to 404 pages.

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