How many times have you had to email or use a long url, one that broke down or wrapped into two lines? Times like that, you probably wanted to know if there was an easier way. Well, there is an easier way to take long urls, especially those long affiliate urls, and make them smaller. Plus of course, hide those affiliate urls as people can see them and know they are affiliate urls and probably not bother clicking on them.

Short URL aliases are seen as useful because they’re easier to write down, remember or pass around, are less error-prone to write, and also fit where space is limited such as IRC channel topics, email signatures, or microblogs that have a character limit for each post (140 in the case of Twitter). Also some email clients impose a maximum length at which they automatically break lines requiring the user to paste together a long URL rather than just clicking on it. A short URL alias is much less likely to become broken.

Now there is a site where you can take a long ugly url and have it shortened down to an easy to remember and use url. That service is new to the internet and is called Make It Tiny URL Service. Here are two reasons to use this new service:

1. With MIT URL Service, you can also make a smaller URL that will work for any page on your site. Let’s say that you have a website with the homepage that is at: http://www.my-internet-isp.com/~myusername
Entering that URL into MIT URL Service will create a URL like http://miturl.com/p7Nh887gb

2. Are you posting something that you don’t want people to know what the URL is because it might give away that it’s an affiliate link? Then you can enter a URL into MIT URL Service, and your affiliate link will be hidden from the visitor, only the miturl.com address and the ending address will be visible to your visitors.

Before you use a long ugly url in your next email, post to a forum, or put it into your website or blog, head over to the MIT URL Service site and get it shortened! You and your viewers will be glad you did.