Tiny URL Etiquette

When sending complicated links, services like TinyURL.com can shorten a URL to just twenty to thirty characters. Total win, right?

Unfortunately, not. Sending a shortened URL means you lose all the context that normal URLs provide. A link like this http://tinyurl.com/8rhxd tells you nothing about where you’re going to link to. That’s a problem when you’re writing to an audience that’s been burned by spam and spyware.

For those reasons, consider posting both the original URL as well as the tinyurled one. Let your audience know where they’re linking to. Adding both raises the level of trust and lets people decide more knowingly whether they want to follow that link or not.

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