{"id":296,"date":"2013-02-13T09:42:27","date_gmt":"2013-02-13T09:42:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.loucoll.ac.uk\/learningtechnology\/?p=296"},"modified":"2013-02-27T15:18:37","modified_gmt":"2013-02-27T15:18:37","slug":"how-to-shorten-urls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.loucoll.ac.uk\/learningtechnology\/2013\/02\/13\/how-to-shorten-urls\/","title":{"rendered":"How to shorten URLs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.loucoll.ac.uk\/learningtechnology\/files\/2013\/01\/hints-and-tips-bulb1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-850\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.loucoll.ac.uk\/learningtechnology\/files\/2013\/01\/hints-and-tips-bulb1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.loucoll.ac.uk\/learningtechnology\/files\/2013\/01\/hints-and-tips-bulb1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blogs.loucoll.ac.uk\/learningtechnology\/files\/2013\/01\/hints-and-tips-bulb1-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.loucoll.ac.uk\/learningtechnology\/files\/2013\/01\/hints-and-tips-bulb1-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.loucoll.ac.uk\/learningtechnology\/files\/2013\/01\/hints-and-tips-bulb1.jpg 2024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 100px) 100vw, 100px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you ever need to send a link of a website to colleagues or learners it can sometime look messy if the link is pretty long. You can however shorten this link which can make it look a lot tidier! Not only this, but by shortening URLs you can also monitor the amount of people that have visited the page.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For example<\/strong> the summary of the staff use of technology survey can be found below &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/a\/student.loucoll.ac.uk\/spreadsheet\/viewanalytics?formkey=dEliOGl3TUl0ajR6NW1jOXR3YVd1S0E6MA\">https:\/\/docs.google.com\/a\/student.loucoll.ac.uk\/spreadsheet\/viewanalytics?formkey=dEliOGl3TUl0ajR6NW1jOXR3YVd1S0E6MA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>However when we share this link we people we just give them this &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/goo.gl\/7zI4U\">http:\/\/goo.gl\/7zI4U<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Both links take you to the same place but the second is alot shorter than the first!<\/p>\n<p>This quick video shows you how and where you can go to do it:<\/p>\n<p>[youtube_sc url=&#8221;http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-OpKMqCXOFE&amp;feature=BFa&amp;list=PLCFC7B1C66DAD2050&#8243;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you ever need to send a link of a website to colleagues or learners it can sometime look messy if the link is pretty long. You can however shorten this link which can make it look a lot tidier! Not only this, but by shortening URLs you can also &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[37],"class_list":["post-296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-google"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.loucoll.ac.uk\/learningtechnology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.loucoll.ac.uk\/learningtechnology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.loucoll.ac.uk\/learningtechnology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.loucoll.ac.uk\/learningtechnology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.loucoll.ac.uk\/learningtechnology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=296"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.loucoll.ac.uk\/learningtechnology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":879,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.loucoll.ac.uk\/learningtechnology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296\/revisions\/879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.loucoll.ac.uk\/learningtechnology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.loucoll.ac.uk\/learningtechnology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.loucoll.ac.uk\/learningtechnology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}