URL Expander Articles

The URL Expander is just one of the many URL expanders online. Quite a handful of articles have been written about these URL Expanders. Here are some of the articles I've seen in the net that talks about these online URL Expanders.

URL Expander Articles:

Different articles on URL Expanders and Shorteners on different sites

• How to Examine a Short URL Before Clicking - You can examine a short URL before clicking. If you are ever concerned about the shortened URLs on Twitter and social networking sites, know how to examine a short URL before clicking for your protection.

• How to UNshorten Any URL - URL shorteners have become popular together with Twitter: they allow to save on characters and thus tweet and retweet very long URLs. They do have one huge advantage of making URLs short; they also have two huge disadvantage: third-party URLs shrinkers are unreliable (imagine if one of the services just stops existing) and they are "blind" in the meaning that you never know where you might land after clicking it.

• Shrink URLs, expand URLs, make money - Short URLs become important when you need to share the address of a Web page. They are not only easy to remember and to key in, but also are very economical in using characters. But then they also pose a problem. You might not know what lies beneath the short URL.

• Shortern URL threat to your financials - The most obvious problem is that shortened URLs could lead anywhere — a spam site, a phishing site, a porn site, a malware site, who knows? More over shortern URL’s can track and compile click data. One of the reasons that bit.ly has received so much attention lately is because of the comprehensive data Bitly provides in the form of live click data, geographic location, the webpage the link where the link was clicked, and more. Such info could be a potential threat to the clicker.

• Top 10 Websites to Expand Any Short URL - Twitter will shorten the long URLs automatically by bit.ly, so that you can tweet more words and track how many times your links are clicked. Besides bit.ly, there are more than 200 websites which also offer short URL services.

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