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Posted September 29, 20204 yr Hey fam, would you guys find short links for our IPS forums to be useful? So instead of pasting a long link, or using Bit.ly (for example), a plugin/app is created that generates a short URL for your board. Bitly just started capping how many links you can create in a month on their free account. Thoughts?
September 29, 20204 yr I have a short version of my own forum domain. I wonder if I can set it up somehow so that domain can be used for automatic shortening of links posted on social media and so on?
September 29, 20204 yr Author 9 hours ago, Maxxius said: I have a short version of my own forum domain. I wonder if I can set it up somehow so that domain can be used for automatic shortening of links posted on social media and so on? What do you mean "a short version of my own forum domain?" Like another domain name that's an abbreviation of the original? Would that hurt SEO I wonder?
September 29, 20204 yr Yeah exactly like you said. like like google has goo.gl or youtu.be (but mines 3 letters just like bit.ly) Well what's the difference bit.ly or tib.ly for example? they are not the core domain so how could it hurt seowise?
September 29, 20204 yr Author 21 minutes ago, Maxxius said: Yeah exactly like you said. like like google has goo.gl or youtu.be (but mines 3 letters just like bit.ly) Well what's the difference bit.ly or tib.ly for example? they are not the core domain so how could it hurt seowise? Good point. What mechanism are you using to forward the URLs from the short URL to the original?
September 29, 20204 yr Some time ago, I described how I solved this problem for one of my communities.
September 29, 20204 yr Author 7 hours ago, Mr 13 said: Some time ago, I described how I solved this problem for one of my communities. Awesome! How did you do this? Does it track clicks?
August 29, 20222 yr That's the feature I need the most There's a plugin, but it's no longer available https://invisioncommunity.com/files/file/7839-advanced-path-aliases-full
September 5, 20222 yr I'm using bit.ly It do short my loooong forum links Edit: and i customize my short link. Thanks to bit.ly Edited September 5, 20222 yr by Feneroin
