Decent URL - Make Your Web Address Understandable
If you are into Affiliate marketing, you would have come across the URL shortening service. There are plenty in the market like tinyURL, snipURL etc. What these does is, take a long URL and create a shortened version of it.
This is actually quite useful in different situations. Lets say that you want to Twitter an URL. You cannot exceed more than 40 letters (I think…) in the URL. How would you tackle this. Its easy. Make your lengthy URL and create an alternative shortened URL and you can twitter now.
Similarly, in the affiliate marketing, you don’t want to expose your affiliates by putting in the lengthy and spammy looking URLs. Just shorten it and use it.
But the problem is, you will have to accept the random characters in the alphabets in the URL. Now is there a way to avoid it? Thanks to DecentURL, now you can. Instead of letting the system to select the random URL, you can type in the text and the system creates a meaningful URL.
Since WordPress does something like this, why would you want another one? You can use this service to give a different meaning to the same base URL.