What Is Pretty Link?
• Shrink, track and share any URL on the Internet from your WordPress website.
• You can now shorten links using your own domain name (as opposed to using tinyurl.com, bit.ly, or any other link shrinking service)!
• In addition to creating clean links, Pretty Link tracks each hit on your URL and provides a full, detailed report of where the hit came from, the browser, os and host.
• Pretty Link is a killer plugin for people who want to mask their affiliate links, track clicks from emails, their links on Twitter to come from their own domain, or generally increase the reach of their website by spreading these links on forums or comments on other blogs.
Why Use URL Shortner
• The best long term solution to URL Shortener is to own your own URL Shortener, you are in full control and certainly you would avoid spam mails issue.
• In fact it is better to cloak your url especially if you are promoting the url with emails because if the original url appear too often, most email providers would send your mail to the spam folders.
• Secondly,cloaking your url would prevent thief from stealing your commission.
You would need a URL Shortener to shorten your Custom Forum Referral Links
and this is a very detailed analysis.
