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Some Uses For URL Shorteners

Monday, February 25th, 2008

My GoCodes Redirection Plugin has been added to the directory at Wordpress.org, and I’ve been shamelessly promoting it wherever I can.

But what can the plugin be used for? Why would you want to to use a URL shortener?

Here are some examples: (more…)

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