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Viral Marketing - URL Snippers Reviewed: Viral URL vs Tiny URL

Viral Marketing - URL Snippers Reviewed: Viral URL vs Tiny URL

Lately, I have been using Tiny URL, to shorten all of my URL’s and other links, especially when trying to get links stumbled on Digital Point Forums in a stumble exchange. It started to get a little tedious and time consuming to keep up with all of the links. That is no longer a problem; I found a program that not only allows you to cloak and shorten your affiliate links, or whatever links you need shortened, but it also allows you to give it nice name. Tiny URL doesn’t do that. It gives it some weird encryption number for the name.

Viral URL allows you to use a keyword to describe the cloaked link. For instance if you wanted to cloak a link to www dot crazy.insane.website.long.name.com, you could make it something like this with Viral URL: viralurl.com/crazyname. Not only does this allow you to shorten it, but it also allows you to recognize it in an instant. You may think that isn’t needed, but if you start putting affiliate links on your website and want to know exactly what links were clicked, it will be a problem.

You may have 10 different tiny URL’s that get clicked. How do you know what they are? You don’t. Viral URL definitely solves that problem. In addition you also get some added benefits. For instance if you want to manage all of those links you are cloaking, you just go to the website and there they are. Not only that, it tracks how many clicks those links have received. How wonderful is that? If you are one of those people who are trying to hide affiliate links from hackers with php code, then this is the program for you. Viral URL also has a wizard that creates these PHP files for you. Now that is a nice feature.

You may be wondering why it is called Viral URL. As well as all of the other great features, you get advertising with Viral URL. Whenever someone visits one of your Viral URL links you can have it display a bar at the top or bottom, this earns you advertising credits. Whenever someone clicks on that Viral URL, your ad gets displayed somewhere else. It also has banner ad campaigns you can run.

The only thing I didn’t like about it was the email part. It works like ListDotCom where you can contact your downline. That is too much like spam to me. I don’t like lists like that, where they don’t even have to opt in. Although, I am not sure it is your email address that receives the message. Viral URL has its own built in inbox, which may be where these are received. Other than that, I absolutely love this program.