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Shorten Your URL's and Stop Losing Sales Due to Lousy 3rd Party URL Redirects and Affiliate Link Theft!


Take Control By Using Your Own Free URL Redirect Service

Have you ever used a 3rd party-free URL redirect service? Most of the recent ones are referred to as: link cloaker's, link redirectors, link encryptor's, link forwarders, link shrinkers, tinyURL's, compactURL's, short URLs...etc.

Why use a free URL redirection service?

Here were some of my initial reasons:
*Prevent link theft
*Eliminate cut off hyperlinks in emails
*Make the links look cleaner by removing tons of variables from the link

If you don't know what I'm talking about, you can promote a merchant through a affiliate relationship. They would offer you a link like:

http://www.qsdfy.com/if=24kl3k&productid=32423434&sd-121kjsklssld

Isn't that one long ugly URL?

Or maybe you've seen a webpage that you want to send to a friend. You copy and paste the web address into an email. They receive it, and the link is cut off. They can't view the page you wanted them to see.

If you shorten the URL, you could end up with something like this:

http://www.littleURL.com/a/3f1

That's a lot less to type, and easier to read through. It doesn't directly show a affiliate ID, if any, and in most cases, will retain it's link in an email.

These 3rd party URL redirect services were great to use at first, but I realized as time went on, their servers became overloaded. I've told some friends to check out some of my websites, and several times, the link either took a long time, or timed out and went to an error page.

Having my own business, I've always wanted full control over it. Although that's almost impossible, I knew that I could do something that would reduce the negative impact from others. Being in a job for so long, I guess I got tired of my future being in somebody elses hands.

So being the bootstrapper and hacker that I am, I created my own personal URL redirect software --cleanURL.

cleanURL will allow you to use the basic features that those 3rd party ones have, as well as:
*increase the speed of your redirected links by using your own server (assuming you do have a good server)
*have the ability to track your outbound-redirected links.
*avoid security issues with 3rd party URL redirect service's
*avoid losing sales due to 3rd party server problems
*and have a URL redirect service that is easy to install without any special requirements except the ability to handle PHP.

I've looked throughout the web for a good software that I could use. Having a Windows IIS server has brought me a minor challenge. Some of these software packages needed mod_rewrite (used on apache servers). Another issue was MySQL. I've been putting off my MySQL installation since I use static HTML with my SEO and Blogging software. (If you're wondering why, statics page pages can be managed dynamically and pulling up their webpage addresses directly is still faster than querying data to dynamically build a page from a database).

So, with the challenges I've had, I built a personal URL redirect software that you can have access to as a 'Nichefinder Newsletter' subscriber. The package comes with it's own documentation that you can review before installing it if you wish. Besides this tool, you'll also receive my monthly Niche Report. It's a 100-300 keyword list containing low competition, high demand keywords that you can use for your niche site.

If you'd like to sign up, there's a sign up form on the right margin. Don't wait too long, I'm only offering cleanURL for a limited time.

Your privacy is respected and you can unsubscribe any time you want.

So get cleanURL and some niches today!

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