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If you want to make a TinyURL show a preview before it redirects to the long URL, you can prepend "preview." to the URL.
You can also activate a browser cookie so that anytime you visit a shorturl it will first take you to a preview page, even if you haven't prepended "preview." to it.
On some message boards it's good etiquette to post TinyURLs with the preview included.
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A TinyURL lasts forever.
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Prevent visitors from cutting off your affiliate id code when visiting your links. Track hits using the include unique and raw hit counter to compare against the stats your affiliate provides.
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The IDs we generate ( e.g http://www.tiny.ahost.ro/?OVGa )
Don't contain letters or numbers that can be easily mistranscribed. For example zero can look like the capital letter 'O' and 1 (one) can look like a lowercase 'L' or a capitol 'i' and visa versa. We avoid using all these characters ( 0, O, I, l, 1 ). We also generate only lowercase letters but TinyURLs will work the same with the letters capitalized if someone accidentally transcribes them this way.
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Make a TinyURL instantly for whatever page you're currently viewing with the click of a button by adding TinyURL to your Bookmarks. Better yet -- add it to your Bookmarks Tool Bar.
Drag the following link to your links toolbar: TinyURL!
If that doesn't work or you want specific instructions for your browser on adding toolbar links and bookmarklets, see below:
It appears you are using FireFox
Drag the following link to your bookmarks toolbar: TinyURL!
No toolbar showing? In your browser's menu, Go to: View , then: Toolbars, and checkmark "Bookmarks Toolbar".
If you don't like to enable your Toolbar you can add it to your regular bookmarks and select it anytime you want to shorten the url you're viewing. Right Click this link: TinyURL!
Then:
Now anytime you want to make a Short URL just select it from the bookmarks menu and it will send you to TinyURL instantly generating a TinyURL for what ever page you're currently viewing.
If you want to enable your Bookmarks Toolbar you can do so by going to: View - Toolbars and checkmark "Bookmarks Toolbar".
