Drupal tip on replacing URL shortening services

Posted Wed, 05/20/2009
FAIL (the browser should render some flash content, not this).

This is a brief overview of using Path Redirect and Pathauto, when I want to shorten my own links, without using tinyurl or bit.ly.

In the first half I show you where to locate the internal Drupal links for content and in the second half, how to setup aliases for external links. What your gaining is expsure to your own URL when posting in feeds versus giving away the exposure to a URL shortening service. I don't know what the SEO side affects are by using the method shown here. I hope you find this useful check out more at MatthewM.org

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by Anonymous - 09/28/2009

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Thanks for this excellent

by Anonymous - 09/11/2009

Thanks for this excellent tip, i will try it inmediatly.

Good Tip. I'd like to know

by Anonymous - 09/10/2009

Good Tip. I'd like to know more information. I use brainyurl.com to cloak some of my links and it works great.

You could just use

by Anonymous - 05/21/2009

You could just use http://drupal.org/project/shorturl potentially with http://drupal.org/project/shorten

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