What?

http://eaturl.info – EatURL for “eating up” any link into a smaller one

http://blogurl.info – BlogURL for shortening those super-long blog links

http://foodurl.info – FoodURL for shortening food blog or food-related links

Why?

Ever send a link to someone? By email? over Facebook or Twitter? Website URLs can be (and generally are) quite long. This makes it impossible to read the link to someone (say, over the phone) or post on social websites like Facebook or Twitter because they just don’t fit and even in an email, long links can “break” and become unclickable. Well, the above websites make sharing links easier. They shorten the URL (http://…) so it’s faster to type and easier to share yet still takes you directly to the original site! It essentially just covers up that long, nasty URL with a short, randomly generated one that will never expire. It takes only 1 second to create one and you can do it even faster by creating a Bookmark for whenever you are at a website you wish to send someone. As soon as you click the Bookmark, the URL of the site you were at will be instantly turned into a short URL.

How?

It’s quite simple really, simply go to one of the sites above and enter a long URL.

For example, turn this: