You’re probably heard or used TinyURL, the URL shortening service that is so popular on Twitter right now. And this is a post on a review of a URL shortening service. Perhaps you will ask, “There’s many URL shortening services out there on the Web, why bother to write a review on any one of them?”
It’s true there’s many of them, but when it comes to online product selling, especially if you’re promoting your affiliate marketing business, you’re not only need a tool that helps you to shortening the URL, but also a tool that will cloak the URL. Most of these tools are not free, you’ll need to pay for a premium in order to use any one of them. However, I recently came across a free one which is called OffTo.net, used it for testing purposes, not only it does the above functionality, but also gains traction amongst the affiliate marketers across the Web.
After you signing up for this OffTo.net, you can start to cloak the links you want by supplying the affiliate URL, create customized short URL, and a title of it. Other than the condense of link, you can hide the link to affiliate program on the landing page. As you know, affiliate URLs tend to be long and ugly in general, and most people nowadays probably won’t click on an obvious affiliate link. However, if you wish to check the stats, i.e. how many people clicked on the link, as well as the actual referring page, you’ll need to remember the security code in order to access the stats page.
Meanwhile, there is a downside of this service. Once you signed up for this OffTo.net, you’ve opted in yourself an email subscription from the creator of this service, i.e. Jonathan Leger, whether or not it is his blog post or own program email notification, but you always can unsubscribe at any time if you want to.
