Comments on: Make Your own TinyURL Service http://www.htmlcenter.com/blog/make-your-own-tinyurl-service/ Web Development Help and Tutorials Sun, 05 Feb 2012 17:25:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: cusom news http://www.htmlcenter.com/blog/make-your-own-tinyurl-service/#comment-7872 cusom news Mon, 16 Mar 2009 19:34:48 +0000 http://htmlcenter.com/?p=149#comment-7872 Great idea. If it's so simple, any of you coders want to give me a price for putting one together? Great idea. If it’s so simple, any of you coders want to give me a price for putting one together?

]]> By: Adrian http://www.htmlcenter.com/blog/make-your-own-tinyurl-service/#comment-7870 Adrian Mon, 16 Mar 2009 12:06:18 +0000 http://htmlcenter.com/?p=149#comment-7870 @seo consultant actually, tinyurl also lets you use your tags. On their page, the box under your URL. @seo consultant
actually, tinyurl also lets you use your tags. On their page, the box under your URL.

]]> By: Andreas http://www.htmlcenter.com/blog/make-your-own-tinyurl-service/#comment-7869 Andreas Mon, 16 Mar 2009 12:05:30 +0000 http://htmlcenter.com/?p=149#comment-7869 I don't understand why Twitter is shortening URLs at all. They should just excempt URLs from the 140 chars limit. After all, linking is what drives the web and should not be punished. I don’t understand why Twitter is shortening URLs at all. They should just excempt URLs from the 140 chars limit. After all, linking is what drives the web and should not be punished.

]]> By: Baishampayan Ghose http://www.htmlcenter.com/blog/make-your-own-tinyurl-service/#comment-7868 Baishampayan Ghose Mon, 16 Mar 2009 10:41:52 +0000 http://htmlcenter.com/?p=149#comment-7868 MD5 is a hashing, and not an encryption algorithm. Anyway your way of creating the permalink is way too complicated. Real url shortening services use a BASE64 (or something similar) encoding of the DB id. MD5 is a hashing, and not an encryption algorithm. Anyway your way of creating the permalink is way too complicated. Real url shortening services use a BASE64 (or something similar) encoding of the DB id.

]]> By: mvh http://www.htmlcenter.com/blog/make-your-own-tinyurl-service/#comment-7867 mvh Mon, 16 Mar 2009 09:52:54 +0000 http://htmlcenter.com/?p=149#comment-7867 Nice post! Was thinking about that tinyurl idea myself. But instead of making money with it by framing it in with a banner on top. I figured you could also make a database of affiliate links from several affiliate programs, and try to match these with the url you transform. If it exists (of you can build an affiliate url) change the landingsurl to the affiliate url. The user won't see the difference, (most of the time) a cookie is placed for returning visit conversion. If it doesn't exists just use the regular url. The sheer volume would create enough profit (i think). As an extention you could have users build their own tiny affiliate links and make money of it as a revenue share model. Most affiliate programs I work with have a unique url reference. Of course if you really want to set it up big, you could start your own affiliate program... Nice post! Was thinking about that tinyurl idea myself. But instead of making money with it by framing it in with a banner on top. I figured you could also make a database of affiliate links from several affiliate programs, and try to match these with the url you transform. If it exists (of you can build an affiliate url) change the landingsurl to the affiliate url. The user won’t see the difference, (most of the time) a cookie is placed for returning visit conversion. If it doesn’t exists just use the regular url. The sheer volume would create enough profit (i think).

As an extention you could have users build their own tiny affiliate links and make money of it as a revenue share model. Most affiliate programs I work with have a unique url reference.

Of course if you really want to set it up big, you could start your own affiliate program…

]]> By: jgoto http://www.htmlcenter.com/blog/make-your-own-tinyurl-service/#comment-6957 jgoto Fri, 03 Oct 2008 14:00:36 +0000 http://htmlcenter.com/?p=149#comment-6957 At least for now, TinyURL is a lot more reliable than Twitter is. If twitter had its own service it had better be put on a different server because you wouldn't want the shortened links to stop working everytime Twitter goes down. At least for now, TinyURL is a lot more reliable than Twitter is. If twitter had its own service it had better be put on a different server because you wouldn’t want the shortened links to stop working everytime Twitter goes down.

]]> By: SEO Consultant http://www.htmlcenter.com/blog/make-your-own-tinyurl-service/#comment-132 SEO Consultant Wed, 19 Dec 2007 08:15:59 +0000 http://htmlcenter.com/?p=149#comment-132 I prefer <a href="http://www.tiny9.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.tiny9.com</a> because you can specify tags to use in your URLs instead of generating random ones. I prefer http://www.tiny9.com because you can specify tags to use in your URLs instead of generating random ones.

]]> By: sburton http://www.htmlcenter.com/blog/make-your-own-tinyurl-service/#comment-131 sburton Sun, 14 Oct 2007 21:16:44 +0000 http://htmlcenter.com/?p=149#comment-131 Good info well i run a urlshorting service i found this when i was researching the comption as my site is very new but doing ok as not done much promting on as of yet. Why i made this site well to offer a free service to web masters and i did not like the sites i use to use when i made small er urls the server cost are not cheap unless you have a decicated server as i have that way i can run my own sites with out much cost at all Good info well i run a urlshorting service i found this when i was researching the comption as my site is very new but doing ok as not done much promting on as of yet. Why i made this site well to offer a free service to web masters and i did not like the sites i use to use when i made small er urls the server cost are not cheap unless you have a decicated server as i have that way i can run my own sites with out much cost at all

]]> By: K http://www.htmlcenter.com/blog/make-your-own-tinyurl-service/#comment-130 K Sun, 07 Oct 2007 20:13:26 +0000 http://htmlcenter.com/?p=149#comment-130 Your save-process is too complicated. You don't need to create a hash. Just increment the id by one for each URL. And then you use one of the smart "character to decimal" converters out there, that converts base87 (or whatever) to the internal numerical value. Much more simple, and you avoid checking for duplicates. The first users of your service also gets 2-3 letter id's, so that makes it more attractive. Your save-process is too complicated. You don’t need to create a hash. Just increment the id by one for each URL. And then you use one of the smart “character to decimal” converters out there, that converts base87 (or whatever) to the internal numerical value.

Much more simple, and you avoid checking for duplicates. The first users of your service also gets 2-3 letter id’s, so that makes it more attractive.

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