Do I have to pay for link shortening services?
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URL or link shortener is a tool that reduces the length of a URL and direct to specific locations on a website. Apart from shortening links, these services may also collects information everytime someone goes to a page via a shortened link. They collect statistics such as number of views, geographical location of users, and other information. These companies also offer paid enterprise-level shortening services. Companies like Nokia can use their own short domains on this service, and use shortened links on networks like Twitter to track and analyze the effectiveness of their marketing campaigns through the collected statistics.
Link shortening is a paid services— business and companies pay to get their url shortened. Actually there is huge money in URL shortening. Just yesterday I earned $57 shortening twelve URLs. On an average work day I can crank out about 12-15 URLs. I do it the old fashioned way, though. People send me their URLs either by e-mail or postcard and I shorten it for them, trim the sides and send it back. It’s a steady work and training is mostly on the job— that is you have to be good with numbers and some manual dexterity also help.