Post Your Business At APSense
Get More Use From Your APSense Signature
by Lynn I. Earning Online Since 1999
Lynn I. 
Earning Online Since 1999
Members of my groups know that I frown on using shortened urls on advertisement posts. Because I don't feel it is good to lead people on wild goose chases. And it always better to be upfront.
But, I have found a good use for them. In our signatures here, alot of members like myself highlight our groups or blogs. Well, both my article links were 42 characters...by using tinyurl.com (there are tons of these free services) I shaved off 17 characters on each, so that was 34 for both. In alot of situations that may not be much. But, here at APSense where you have 100 character limit, saving 34 characters is alot!
And you aren't really hiding anything, as the original link said apsense article #xxxxxx . So it isn't like you are adding to the mystery..lol... I hope this helps some of you to get more use out of your signatures.
Take care, Lynn
Edited on 11-12-07 This advice is meant for APSense signatures that are used for APSense blogs and articles. Search engines aren't fond of any shortened url's. So if you use your signature for your business, you may want to use the actual link.
Nov 10th 2007 13:28
Earning Online Since 1999Members of my groups know that I frown on using shortened urls on advertisement posts. Because I don't feel it is good to lead people on wild goose chases. And it always better to be upfront.
But, I have found a good use for them. In our signatures here, alot of members like myself highlight our groups or blogs. Well, both my article links were 42 characters...by using tinyurl.com (there are tons of these free services) I shaved off 17 characters on each, so that was 34 for both. In alot of situations that may not be much. But, here at APSense where you have 100 character limit, saving 34 characters is alot!
And you aren't really hiding anything, as the original link said apsense article #xxxxxx . So it isn't like you are adding to the mystery..lol... I hope this helps some of you to get more use out of your signatures.
Take care, Lynn
Edited on 11-12-07 This advice is meant for APSense signatures that are used for APSense blogs and articles. Search engines aren't fond of any shortened url's. So if you use your signature for your business, you may want to use the actual link.
Nov 10th 2007 13:28
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Lynn I.
Earning Online Since 1999Garnet, Your welcome. Have you cleared it and just started over? Lynn Nov 10th 2007 13:40 |
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Not Here
 just want my account deletedDon't think so...I'll give it another shot here... Nov 10th 2007 13:42 |
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just want my account deletedWell I'm back here looking at it and it has changed..lol..Thanks Lynn! Nov 10th 2007 13:53 |
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Eric Smith
 Online ProfessionalI don't usually click on short or tracking url's (unless i know the promoter well). Its easy to hide malicious code in url's which self loads onto a users computer once you click on the link. One positive difference with tinyurl is you can set it to go to the tiny url site which then displays the link you will be visiting... if it looks dodgy - nothing is lost. Great idea when it comes to sig links... and i would only use tinyurl for this. Nov 10th 2007 15:22 |
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Lynn I.
Earning Online Since 1999Eric, I am the same way, I too only click on tiny urls from people I know and trust. I just thought it would help those struggling with the 100 character limit. Another reason your online reputation is important :) Lynn Nov 10th 2007 15:30 |
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Chuck Bartok
 Veteran Entrepreneur now SharingAs always, Good Information Lynn Thank you Nov 11th 2007 07:23 |
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Eric Smith
Online ProfessionalSomething that Pete pointed out in another group is that if Search Engine Marketing is a key focus, then short url's (although handy for gaining extra characters in signatures) would probably defeat the purpose... Nov 11th 2007 12:28 |
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Lynn I.
Earning Online Since 1999Eric, Very true. Like I have said, I do not recommend using them online in general. They are just for making better use of the character limit here in APSense. As I don't depend on my signature for business, it works great for me. If members are using signatures for their business they should use actual links. I use mine for blogs and articles, as I noticed alot of members do. Lynn Nov 12th 2007 08:56 |
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anuj
 well put,signatures are one of the most important thing in social forums and need to be handled carefully i hope i can learn how to do that!!lol thnx Nov 12th 2007 09:34 |
Ha..thanks Lynn, never though of that..er..having a problem changing my sig though..any suggestions?
Nov 10th 2007 13:38