Long link

Author of this Article - Jyoti Raut »
Published on September 08, 2010 @ 12:30AM PST |

Conclusion On Long link - Long links or URLs may be broked up while sending it from email by email provider or email recipient email program.

I am sending one link to my friends on email, but when they click on the link to open the webpage they are unable to open it said "page not found". When i open the link in my browser it is working fine. It is possible that because the link is very long it may be broked up some where? Is it broke up by the email provider or the email program which i am using or may be the email program by my email recipient? I want to make this link short then it is in real, it is very long. How i can make this long link to short link so it may not be broken while i send it to other recipients.

How can i post a long link in email?

There may be more reasons responsible to send you the link to the other user of internet and one of the most field at which user send link to other user is social media network where they either want to share some video or other type of files like songs, doc document etc. Here are some of the networking website where you need to short your long URLs or links because there is a word limit.

With Twitter you only can send 160 characters in one message so if you have have link with 100 words then may be it is not possible to send this type of long URLs with one message. For this you need to short this URL and if this url link goes to 20 or 30 character it is possible to send this link in one message.
With orkut same thing happen and you need to short your URLs and links for sending it to message.

If you send email to the other recipients it may be possible that long URLs break at some place. it may be at the recipients mail server or at the email provider's end at which you are sending email.

There are various ways from which you can convert urls and links from long links to a short links.

Here are some of the websites which provide you the option to short links from long link.

1link.in
tiny.cc
ref.ly
bit.ly

Those are some of the websites at which you can short your long links and send it with emails so it can't be broken anywhere.

Suppose i goto any of the website at which i can make short link from my long link. Here are the step by step process at which i am converting long link into short link.

Goto one of the website at which you can short your long links.
Then put up the long link into textbox and press the button "Shorten" or "Short the link" or anything from which you can indicate this will short the link.
Suppose my link is http://yahootips.com/Email/About-Email/How-can-i-post-a-long-link-in-email.aspx and when i put this link into the textbox i got the link http://bit.ly/bWwlRJ which i can use to send in my email.
And when some press this link http://bit.ly/bWwlRJ it will directly navigate to the actual link http://yahootips.com/Email/About-Email/How-can-i-post-a-long-link-in-email.aspx

That is how we can convery very long link into short link.