I had noticed that some links (particularly Firefox, ICRA and the validators) were so long that they made the Fancy Tooltips I installed yesterday stretch the screen (not nice, toolbars flash on and off at short intervals), so I have started using TinyURLs for such links.
Basically it is a free service (no ads, nada) that will set up a redirect for you. For example, http://icra.org/cgi-bin/labelTester.cgi?lang=
EN&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.davidarussell.co.uk%2F becomes http://tinyurl.com/arn6m. It doesn’t make any difference to the way the links operate- there’s no ‘Please wait while you are redirected, click here if you don’t want to wait’ sort of crap, because it is done using HTTP codes (the same way that if you follow a link to a post on my old MT blog, your browser automatically loads the same story on this Wordpress one even though the URLs are different.
I faced the same problem. See if this WP hack of mine helps. This gives you a tinyurl for every post of yours, using your own domain name (and not tinyurl’s).
Correct.
I’m also using now short links using the http://yatuc.com service which is also free but with some nice extra features.
Seems good but I’m suspicious about the level of advertising - and why exactly would I want to password protect a REDIRECT url? Bearing in mind that all the TinyURL redirects I was using were to publicly-accessible sites