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Tender vittles  Posts: 3 Registered: 2/17/2006 Offline
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10/29/2007 at 17:38  |
Hey guys,
I would really appreciate to get some feedback on my site:
http://rel="nofollow" href.to/
It is a free URL-Redirection/Shortening service.
Things you could mention / think about:
- Domain-Name (like it or not). is it catchy ?
- Design
- Features you like
- Features you miss
- Default values under "Advanced" (especially the Default-Referring-Type)
There also is a Affiliate-Programm, where you can earn $20 (soon $50) each month.
Check it out here: http://rel="nofollow" href.to/
Regards
plusminus
EDIT: Hyperlinked yo shit
On 2007-10-29 at 13:20:20, vasudeva craps baby wotak monkeypigeon
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vasudeva
Bad Taste in your Mouth   SSHOLEPosts: 4525 Registered: 3/8/2002 Offline
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10/29/2007 at 18:27 |
I love it. Short, sweet, and useful. The only bit of your design that's off is the 'advanced features' block which momentarily appears onscreen during page render, as though it's being hidden through Java script and not CSS. I even like the little out-of-the-way corner-fold help bit.
I've actually been thinking of building one of these myself, for my own purposes. I'd need to have some service I could push URLs at and get back tiny ones, ~500 times a day, and these URLs would only need to live for 12 hours max and be used pretty sparingly. If your terms allowed that, and I could screenscrape it easily (or use some API), then I'd just use yours.
P.S. Domain name is fuxing sweet, incidentally.
NB: I thought this looked familiar... and it is. You get points off for pretending to have just stumbled over it, instead of claiming it. Not sure why you'd do that, since this is actually useful and not spammy.
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Tender vittles Posts: 3 Registered: 2/17/2006 Offline
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10/29/2007 at 19:04  |
vasudeva: I love it. Short, sweet, and useful. The only bit of your design that's off is the 'advanced features' block which momentarily appears onscreen during page render, as though it's being hidden through Java script and not CSS. I even like the little out-of-the-way corner-fold help bit.
I thought of that too, but by now one has (like you had  ) that "there is somthing"-flash. Perhaps users wouldn't recognize it even.
What do you think now ?
I've actually been thinking of building one of these myself, for my own purposes. I'd need to have some service I could push URLs at and get back tiny ones, ~500 times a day, and these URLs would only need to live for 12 hours max and be used pretty sparingly. If your terms allowed that, and I could screenscrape it easily (or use some API), then I'd just use yours.
What exactly do you mean? like calling an url with some parameters and only retrieving the shorted one (no html/design around)?
Is the page not "fast enough" to "click-through" ?
I WILL make this for you =) !!! (Also think about an Standalone app, could be very usefull..)
(Please answer all of the questions here or contact me by mail(it is on the page))
500 Links would be incredibly awesome, even if just 2-3 people would visit them.
Every SINGLE user is desirable !
P.S. Domain name is fuxing sweet, incidentally.
NB: I thought this looked familiar... and it is. You get points off for pretending to have just stumbled over it, instead of claiming it. Not sure why you'd do that, since this is actually useful and not spammy.
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vasudeva
Bad Taste in your Mouth SSHOLEPosts: 4525 Registered: 3/8/2002 Offline
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10/29/2007 at 19:23 |
plusminus: vasudeva: I love it. Short, sweet, and useful. The only bit of your design that's off is the 'advanced features' block which momentarily appears onscreen during page render, as though it's being hidden through Java script and not CSS. I even like the little out-of-the-way corner-fold help bit.
I thought of that too, but by now one has (like you had ) that "there is somthing"-flash. Perhaps users wouldn't recognize it even.
What do you think now ?
Ah. I suppose you're right. On the other hand, those features seem pretty exotic. I wonder how much they get changed from the defaults?
How do you control the search engine indexability?
I've actually been thinking of building one of these myself, for my own purposes. I'd need to have some service I could push URLs at and get back tiny ones, ~500 times a day, and these URLs would only need to live for 12 hours max and be used pretty sparingly. If your terms allowed that, and I could screenscrape it easily (or use some API), then I'd just use yours.
What exactly do you mean? like calling an url with some parameters and only retrieving the shorted one (no html/design around)?
Is the page not "fast enough" to "click-through" ?
I WILL make this for you =) !!! (Also think about an Standalone app, could be very usefull..)
(Please answer all of the questions here or contact me by mail(it is on the page))
500 Links would be incredibly awesome, even if just 2-3 people would visit them.
Every SINGLE user is desirable !
What I'm talking about is a webservice or similar where I can submit the URL programmatically as part of a script and get back a shortened URL. I could script the form submission through some screenscraper if there's no easier way, though.
Downside: this use would be largely my own, for fairly retarded purposes. So... +1 user. I've got a textmode RSS feed-reader and long URLs wrap. Short URLs would make the layout nicer. (I told you it was retarded.) I've been thinking to set up some kind of shortening service I could call to as part of the feed-reader script so that those URLs are always short, so I can scan it faster visually.
I assume you're eventually going to advertise?
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Tender vittles Posts: 3 Registered: 2/17/2006 Offline
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10/29/2007 at 21:42 |
vasudeva: plusminus: vasudeva: I love it. Short, sweet, and useful. The only bit of your design that's off is the 'advanced features' block which momentarily appears onscreen during page render, as though it's being hidden through Java script and not CSS. I even like the little out-of-the-way corner-fold help bit.
I thought of that too, but by now one has (like you had ) that "there is somthing"-flash. Perhaps users wouldn't recognize it even.
What do you think now ?
Ah. I suppose you're right. On the other hand, those features seem pretty exotic. I wonder how much they get changed from the defaults?
How do you control the search engine indexability?
Searchengines >should< follow these by convention. No one forces them to do so...:
if($allowSearchEngines == 0)
meta name="robots" content="noindex,nofollow,noarchive"
else if($allowSearchEngines == 1)
meta name="robots" content="index,follow"
vasudeva:
I've actually been thinking of building one of these myself, for my own purposes. I'd need to have some service I could push URLs at and get back tiny ones, ~500 times a day, and these URLs would only need to live for 12 hours max and be used pretty sparingly. If your terms allowed that, and I could screenscrape it easily (or use some API), then I'd just use yours.
What exactly do you mean? like calling an url with some parameters and only retrieving the shorted one (no html/design around)?
Is the page not "fast enough" to "click-through" ?
I WILL make this for you =) !!! (Also think about an Standalone app, could be very usefull..)
(Please answer all of the questions here or contact me by mail(it is on the page))
500 Links would be incredibly awesome, even if just 2-3 people would visit them.
Every SINGLE user is desirable !
What I'm talking about is a webservice or similar where I can submit the URL programmatically as part of a script and get back a shortened URL. I could script the form submission through some screenscraper if there's no easier way, though.
You mean like some Java_script stuff... "some text here... shorten('www.imverylooooong.com/knockknock/');.... text" ??
Never done sth like that before, but what I can offer immediately could be also very useful...
http://href.to/theapi.php
// Contains a link, which you can drag'n'drop to your bookmark-toolbar and hit that bookmark to immediately >"href.to IT"<...
You like it ?
vasudeva:
Downside: this use would be largely my own, for fairly retarded purposes. So... +1 user. I've got a textmode RSS feed-reader and long URLs wrap. Short URLs would make the layout nicer. (I told you it was retarded.) I've been thinking to set up some kind of shortening service I could call to as part of the feed-reader script so that those URLs are always short, so I can scan it faster visually.
I assume you're eventually going to advertise?
Advertise what ?
The one GoogleAds is largely enough i think.
I would jump off a bridge, before bringing LayerAds or sth to my site!
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