-So, exactly what is a URL shortener? Well, that's a fair question. And its one we hear all of the time. So, we thought we would give you a bit of a break down on just that. Lets jump right in. (upbeat music) A URL shortener is a simple tool that takes a long complicated URL and crushes it down, compacts it into a short, neat link for you to share. It couldn't be more simple than that. To clarify, A URL shortener is the same as a link compressor, a link shrinker, a URL condenser, a link smallifier, A URL lessen er. Oh, ahhh! I think that's them all. Essentially they're all different ways of saying the same thing. When we want to take something long and ugly, and make it short and cute. But where? I hear you ask. Did URL shortening originate. Well it began way, way way, back in the day, Of the year 2000. Long time ago.
Back then, URL shorteners literally just shortened your URL. That's all they offered, and all that people needed at the time. But! That is ancient history. URL shortener have come a long, long way since then. And today they have such features as, link masking, link shortening, link tracking, link retaining, link routing, and link swapping. Now, there are quite a few URL shortener out there. And, each comes with their own pros and cons. So depending on what your needs are, they may or may not be right for you. A branded link, however is the next step up. Branded links are when you connect your own custom domain to the URL shortener. Which at that point goes about as a base for everybody of the connections that you make. At Rebrandly we generally suggest utilizing your own custom area when shortening joins on the web. That prompts expanded connection trust, brand mindfulness, and Kettering.
For a bit more details on this check out our other video, generic short URLs vs branded links. You can go to it by clicking the branded link there on screen. Look at you go! See, your using branded links already. For Rebrandly, it all about branded links. They are simply the next evolution over generic, short URLS. And, they come with such benefits as, making it easy to purchase and connect any branded domain that you like. We also have plenty of advanced features including, link analytics, UTM builder and link retargeting capabilities. The ability to edit the destination URL of your branded links any time you want. Don't even get me started on how useful that is. Look, if your on the internet at all you've got to be using a URL shortener, right. It just makes sense to switch from generic short URLs to branded links. Trust me, I'm nice! But look, if you don't chose Rebrandly its totally, totally fine.
Its your choice, you do what's best for you and your business. WE will miss you, but so be it. If you do chose us however, we will A. Love you forever and ever and ever and ever and ever, B. Send you out a monthly metric ton of chocolate directly to your address: to thank you for being so cool. Actually, you know what, now that I actually say that, that sounds a little bit threatening. So, lets just leave it at a nice thank you. Best for both of us. Look really no matter what you do, we just highly recommend that you get your own custom domain name. Its so useful for a variety of things, impress you customers, help your marketing strategy, and boost your brand awareness. What ever you wanna do, be sure to let us know in the comments below. See ya next time; take care.
HOW TO CREATE URL SHORTNER WEBSITE FOR FREE
--Hi friends, how are you? A couple of days ago I published a video about the importance of URL shortening services and I told you that you can build your own service. Also on my channel here, you will find a video on how to start a business with this service, a SAAS business. So in this video I will go through step by step, I will show you step by step how to set up and host the premium URL shortening service so you can have your own service so you can use it for your own business, or sell it and start a SAAS business online. Stay tuned.
Hi friends I'm Hasan from Shortlinkdad and today I'm really so excited to publish this video where I will show you step by step how to host and set up your own business your own service please before we start don't forget subscribe now to my channel hit that red button and turn notifications and if you like the video go and smash the like button to help me publish more and more videos on YouTube so let's stop talking and go directly into our work. So what are the requirements for this video? For this setup? Number one: You must have the premium URL shortening script. It costs only 33 dollars one time payment and you build your own business your own service. If you haven't bought it yet please go to the description below you'll have a special link go and get it if you want to continue with us.
And don't worry if you don't want to get it now it's okay just watch the video understand the concept and when you feel comfortable when you want to implement it you can buy the script. Anyway, so number one is to have this script. Number two is: You need a domain name a domain like in my case for my service it's L-ink.me so you need to buy a domain name. In my case I will be using a domain from "GoDaddy" so if you don't have a domain name and you want to set up with us this script please go and buy a domain name you can start with maybe one dollars per year it's cheap by the way. So search for a domain and buy it from "GoDaddy" I have a lot of videos about this I don't want to waste your time now by checking out and buying a domain. We have a lot of videos on YouTube a lot of articles a simple search you can do it if you want.
So in my case if I go now to my domains I have a sample domain I will be using for this tutorial. Number three is: You need a hosting service A VPS service to handle this script I prefer VPS and not shared hosting to get the best performance for this application and the best service and the cheapest service with the best performance is Contabo go to the description below you'll find a link to Contabo VPS services you will get this page directly and you will buy this service. So these are the requirements a VPS server a domain and the script that you want to install. So let's start directly and buy a VPS from Contabo you can see here I am in Contabo main page and I will go with the cheapest VPS it costs you only 4 euros like 5.5
dollars I think per month but it gives you 4 gigabytes of ram 300 gigabytes SSD boosted hard drive and two cores I think it's the best offer all over the internet from Contabo. Anyway so click here customize and order and please follow up with me here we'll select Ubuntu 20 for the operating system it's totally free go down and here select LAMP. LAMP simply is a bunch of applications like MySQL, PHP, Apache so it will make things ready for you you can directly start and publish and upload the script so it will save you a lot of time click LAMP and go down here select how many months you want if you select 12 months you will avoid the setup fee in my case I will go with one month just for testing now and showing you and showing you this.
Click order now that simple if you don't have an account just sign up and add your billing you can use PayPal Skrill, bank transfer or even credit card whatever you want just pay this 5 euros. Now I'm existing customer I will add my email here in Contabo agree just check this and submit your order that's simple and then click on this button: place order, after you click this you will receive an email to your account your inbox Like this one it will tell you to confirm the order so just click on this link here and your order will be confirmed that it and a couple of hours Contabo will send you the login info so you will get this login data this email with your IP the password and everything else so now we have the VPS we have the domain I will be using let's see what I have I will use this domain for my setup H-sites.com this domain so go to the DNS management zone so we can configure the DNS later on so now we have the VPS we have the domain and we have the script we are ready to host and publish it on our server let's start together so now the first step after you get the VPS and your domain is to map together is to map the domain name to the IP so we can ac cess the server using the domain name simply I will copy the IP address of the VPS server from here from the email copy it a