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Creating a URL address where you can easily remember the URL Shortcut
This article is not for any user to create his own since URL shortener will be really interesting to a blogger or a brand.

In fact, if you are familiar with Twitter, you know that the limitation to 140 characters per message requires you to be as concise as possible. Very quickly, the use of URL shortcut has emerged. Indeed, rather than sharing it is shorter /gadgetspider.com/2011/01/27/how-to-tap-your-wife-cellphone/ share //OnlineURL.Net/rag

And if this system is very simple (either with OnlineURL.Net, or tinyURL Minu.me), you realize that you lose something: the recognition of the name of your blog or website.

That's why you have the opportunity to create your own URL shrinker that will remember the name of your blog.

I probably could make it shorter (but as I said earlier, size is not everything). So I really want to address that is recognizable. In addition, the address consists of Web and Tribe, which translates into English as Tribe. This allowed to highlight the social aspect of this approach.

And to do that, I needed two things, and less than 10 minutes of my time.

Here's how:

* Buy the desired domain name short: If needed, I wrote a tutorial to guide you in this purchase
* Apply on OnlineURL.Net Pro for an account
* Then go to your interface OnlineURL.Net Pro to enter the domain name you want to use short
* Return to where you purchased your domain name's DNS to point short to the address you will be given by OnlineURL.Net (if you want to learn to do that, I had an article that addresses this issue)

Then just wait a while these changes take effect and everything is ready.

Later, when you go on OnlineURL.Net while connected to your account, it will automatically reduce your URL with your domain name short.

Small disappointment with this method ... but following your short URL can not be what you want. For example, you can not put gadgetspider.com/A OnlineURL.Net/A since the address is already taken. If you want to customize the area that is after the /, you can not do it completely free.

For people who want to go further than the Pro version, you have an Enterprise version which will give you many additional features.