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How to shorten a URL

How to shorten a URL

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How to shorten a URL

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- [Instructor] When you share links online, the URLs can become excessively long at times, especially if it's from a website you can't control. So in this movie, I want to show you a resource that's going to help you with this common problem and give you more insight into the analytics for the posts you make on social media. The service I'm talking about is Bitly. It's what's called a URL shortener. It takes long URLs and allows you to make 'em really short so you can post 'em. And it's just easier to look at and you can customize 'em. So that's what we're going to use here. Is I just want to go over how you can go about doing this. Now, if you look on the left-hand side here, you can see previous posts I've made. The first one here is the DVG Lab. I posted on Twitter and used this URL shortener to create a custom link. It had a viking artwork in it, so I put rough viking because it's about making roughened graphics.…

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