Your Own Short Url

Custom short URLs with your own domain name!

Short URLs on YOUR domain. Links are to your own web site; no "link love" to someone else's domain. Rely on your own server, instead of third-party services you don't control. Public confidence — link to your own domain, the one they trust .

Whenever a destination URL should not be published, use Your Own Short URL .

Hide links. Hide affiliate links — Some people won't click on a link if they know it is an affiliate link. Those can be lost sales. Hide mailto: links for less spam — Spammers won't harvest your email addresses if they can't find them. Hide links on Twitter, forums, and other sites. Make the curious click on them if they want to know where they go.

A default redirect URL may be specified in case of invalid or missing alias. When an alias is mistyped or an invalid alias used, the browser ends up at your default page.

Easy to use. Dashboard/Control panel creates URLs singly and in batches. Also scans text documents and shortens its URLs. Quick tips in control panel. Click the mouse on a "[?]" link to reveal a tip and help box with useful and relevant information. Built-in user's manual. The user's manual is always handy in the control panel. Just a click away whenever you have a question.

Uses PHP. PHP is the most popular web site scripting language today. The files have open code so you or a programmer friend can see exactly what it does and how it does it.

Easy to choose options. Create short URLs one at a time or in bulk. Click a button and all are shortened for you. Or use the easy access, fast paste 'n click option (tinyurl.com-like interface) Shorten URLs in entire text document. Shorten http://, ftp://, and/or mailto: URLs in newsletter or blog post. (1) Paste the document in, (2) click, (3) copy it out. Custom short URL alias. Specify a meaningful URL alias you can remember and makes sense to people. Or, let Your Own Short URL generate it randomly.

Optional easy access, fast paste 'n click short URL creation (tinyurl.com-like). Put the page into a password-protected directory for quick access, bypassing control panel.

Uses MySQL. The most popular SQL engine and highly dependable for keeping your data safe.

View - Edit - Download Database. View click counts and latest click dates. Search by date range and/or text. Sort any column. May be printed. Know what's going on with your links. Edit click counts when campaigns change. And edit destination URL when old destination becomes a 404 or affiliate link needs to be changed. Download a CSV file of the database. Be selective by date range and/or search terms. Import into spreadsheet software like Excel, iWork, and OpenOffice.org

An early user, Chet Day of chetday.com says, "The Pro version installed without a hitch and is working great. Gosh, it's nice."

Yes, I want it. Immediate download after purchase. You get it right away. If it doesn't work like we say, we'll give you your money back. Just like that.

P.S.

• Click to convert long, broken URLs into short clear URLs for newsletters, email, Twitter, etc. with your domain name.

• Shorten all URLs in entire text documents all at once.

• Optionally, specify custom redirect code/alias when shortening individual URLs.

• Get click counts for link performance statistics.

• Use short URLs in PDFs. If destination URL becomes a 404, use the control panel and edit the database to send browsers to a different page.