I have experience when I posted a thread in a forum that I should type very long URL, although eventually I just copy and paste it. Obviously, having a long URL sometimes make you inconvenience, when you writing an email, or when you should post that have word count limited, making your URL shorter is better choice.

There are many services that offer you shorten URL, but right now, I just explain mostly with TinyURL service. Basically, TinyUrl is a URL forwarding service, or people well known as URL Cloaking, URL Masking, that mean the techniques on the World Wide Web for making a web page available under many URLs.

To get your shorten or tiny URL, simply go to TinyURL, then fill the blank field with your long URL, example: http://www.hasannudin.com/tips-and-tricks/using-seo-friendly-urls-for-better-search-results/, then press Make TinyURL!, a tinyURL will be created for you.

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Link Exchange is very popular in blogging world where bloggers place their link on each other page hoping increasing the Page Rank. What is the Page Rank?, Page Rank is value or ranking which given by Google search engine displaying how important a webpage is, page rank is measured based on the page linking to the other page, more page linking to your page, higher page rank will you get.

People spend a lot of time to get higher page rank due to page rank effect to search engine result, if you have higher page rank, your page will be very posible appear in search result, of course it is supported by the other factor, you can learn about SEO for more.

Blogger who offers link exchange ussually place their link exchange code on their blog. Generally, link exchange can be done by banner or just text link. People will send link exchange request by email or shoutbox, to make link exchange process run faster, people who request link exchange will add link first.

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Entrecard is a free blogging network that is very usefull to increase traffic to your blog. How does it work? When you sign up to entrecard, you will be demanded to upload your image, the image should be 125px X 125px, this image will be your ad and it will appear in other blog when you request to advertise, so everyone who click your ad will be brought to your blog.

To join Entrecard you can go here, then fill out the the blank fields.

Here are Quick Start Guide you may need:

Placing the widget on your blog. The very first thing to do after you have signed up is to placed the Entercard widget on your blog. Here is how to do this :

• Go to the “Get Code” tab on the top navigation.
• You will see three different styles of the widgets. Find one you like, and copy the text code below it.
• Paste this code into your blog, you can use widget on sidebar.
• Now that the widget is on your blog, you need to let Entercard know. Go to your dashbooard you will see the red message, click “Check my page now”, wait for a few minutes, this message should be gone after you refresh the page.

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