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ShortURL Features
ShortURL offers a number of features, many unique to our business. All area accessable through a user-friendly control panel.

  • Subdomains
      Many other URL Redirection services give you an address like:
      http://www.someredirect.com/yourname/
      ShortURL addresses are actual third-level domains, also called subdomains, that look like: yourname.ShortURL.com
  • Path Forwarding
      You can use your ShortURL to forward to a specific path and/or file on your site by simply adding that path and/or file name to the end of your ShortURL. For example, if Joe had the ShortURL:
      joe.vze.com
      which forwards to:
      www.some-web-host.com/users/joe/
      and he wanted to link to a page at:
      www.some-web-host.com/users/joe/mp3links.html
      he could use the ShortURL: joe.vze.com/mp3links.html to forward directly to that page!
  • Prefix Forwarding
      Prefix forwarding allows you to create a subdomain on your subdomain. For example, you can use:
      www.yourname.ShortURL.com
      or
      anything.yourname.ShortURL.com
      and it will forward to your website.
  • Prefix Path Forwarding
      Prefix path forwarding is the same as prefix forwarding, except activating this features will allow you to forward:
      anything.yourname.ShortURL.com
      to a directory of the same name as "anything" on your website. If your ShortURL address points to:
      http://www.geocities.com/username/
      and you have a page located at:
      http://www.geocities.com/username/products/
      you could use
      http://products.yourname.ShortURL.com
      to forward directly to that location.
  • URL Masking
      Normally, after your ShortURL.com forwards to your real URL, your real URL is then shown in the browser's address bar. Turning on URL masking, allows you to keep your ShortURL in the address bar by using a hidden frame trick. This frame is invisible to the user. Then, if visitors bookmark your site, they bookmark your ShortURL, and search engines will link to your ShortURL as well. 95% of our users choose to use this feature.
  • Frame Kill
      Frame Kill forces your site to pop out of any frames it may be loading in. For example if another website links to you and opens your site inside their frame.

      How does this work? If you have URL masking turned on, we insert JavaScript code into the hidden frame. If URL masking is off, we create an invisible and temporary page loading the JavaScript to first pop out your site then use HTML to forward the user. This process is invisible to the user, other than seeing your site pop out of a frame.

  • Traffic Reports
      With a ShortURL address you will have access to traffic stats with daily and monthly reports displaying unique and raw visits and referring URLs. We also calculate your unique/raw ratio and daily averages.

      The Referring URL Report allows you to see where your visitors are coming from! An hourly report displays all the URLs that have sent traffic to your ShortURL address, as well as a list of keywords used to find your site in search engines. Sample Traffic Report Here.

  • Mirror Management
      If you have mirrors of your site you can use your ShortURL to balance traffic between them, or provide redundancy.

      This can be done two ways: 1) You can have ShortURL randomly forward to a mirror, weighing any URLs you wish to get more or less traffic. 2) Or, have ShortURL generate a page, providing visitors with a list your mirrors to choose from along with a description for each one. Sample here. If one URL goes down or is slow, visitors can use another, helping keep your site online at all times!
  • Private Networks / Specific Ports
      If you have a home/office network, and you can get your website to load:
      http://IP-ADDRESS-HERE then you can point a ShortURL there. If you need to get around a pesky port 80 block, then you can setup your server to work on another port (ie. 81) and include the number in the target URL by using:
      http://IP-ADDRESS-HERE:81




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