You may have noticed that a lot of our links recently have been going a website called Followthis. The whole idea behind the website is to get rid of ridiculously long link addresses and make them much smaller. Followthis generates a unique link address when you insert the original link into its generator. Its quick and easy and worth doing. Here’s a little example:
- Say I wanted to search MP3 Players on Amazon.co.uk. The link I’d have would be this: http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_ss_w_h_?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=mp3+players&x=0&y=0. Which is a very long link.
- I may then want to send this link to a friend or colleague. Sending the original link would look very scruffy in an email…which is where Followthis comes in.
- Copy the link into Followthis and click the button ‘Generate Link’.
- Followthis will then create you with a unique URL address for the link. For example, here is the followthis link for the MP3 Player Search: http://followthis.info/f417i95
So as you can see, its simple and makes linking look nicer! As well as making linking nicer it helps links from breaking. Some email clients will wrap the link around onto the next link, but sometimes if it wraps round too many times some email clients will not keep the link whole, and therefore miss a bit off the end meaning the link won’t work! FollowThis solves that problem!
Try it out!