HellBound Bloggers Launches URL Shortener — HBB.ME
Written by Pradeep Kumar in Editorial - Print This Post
URL Shorteners, as we all know, plays an important role in social networking websites like Twitter and other such micro blogging services.
I did a small survey to check what kind of URL Shorteners I used earlier, and it was a cramp. I used several services like Goo.gl, bit.ly, u.nu (now closed), and many more.
Earlier the URLs shorten by bit.ly were blocked by Facebook. Tr.im stopped their service, but they promised to keep existing links active. What if they decided to kill all those shorten URLs?! Simple, you will have tonnes of dead links (of your blog posts) lingering around the net, and that isn’t cute mate!
Though I trust all these services since they are managed by branded company and have been popular for ages. Amidst these confusions and quarrels, finally I decided to launch our own URL Shortener dedicated to all the resources from HBB and I picked hbb.me. The short URL hbb.me will redirect to the main blog hellboundbloggers.com.
It will indeed help us to detect, intercept, and prevent the spread of malware, phishing, and other online dangers.
HellBound Bloggers’s URL Shortener is powered by YOURLS. YOURLS is a small set of PHP scripts that will allow you to run your own URL shortening service.
Original URL : http://hellboundbloggers.com/2010/05/10/reasons-to-marry-a-female-blogger/
Shorten URL : http://hbb.me/4d
It helps us to easily share our links on various social networks and also at the same time promoting our brand.
Purpose Of Launching Our Own URL Shortener (exclusive for HBB)
Apart from ‘lack of confusion’ of current URL Shorteners, I also have some reasons to launch this URL Shortener thing.
- I don’t need to depend on third party URL Shorteners, even if they shut down (like tr.im or u.nu), I won’t care about them!
- Now I can easily monitor and control our shortened links (YOURLS done a good job here, kudos!).
- Now I can create Custom short URL (for eg., hbb.me/sam, hbb.me/twitter, etc). I can also use good keywords here.
- Excellent way for branding my blog. Ding Dong!
- You don’t need to enter the full URL of our blog on mobiles, just enter hbb.me.
HBB.ME will be used only for the posts produced by HellBound Bloggers & maintained within the community only. Cheers. 
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It’s a good thing for Branding for sure.
OMG ! I am going to kill YOU ! Another UNIQUE STUFF from HBB. How do you think of all this ?
I just need to say one more time – I Luv HBB. 
Great ideas! Thanks for sharing guys! Should we register a new domain name to do this?
Yes, you should register a short URL for this one mate.
Hey man it's really a good idea to have your own URL shortener!
That is a good initiative Pradeep. Having own URL shortner will definitely helps in branding. YOURLS is an excellent service and their wordpress plugin is very easy to use.
Excellent work Pradeep… Hope you go ahead well in this
Thanks for sharing. I am learning more from here dude
Great Idea. I don’t know about deactivation of some url’s. You made a great survey.
Awesome….Really Great idea….Thanks for sharing Pradeep.
Great unique feature.
Thanks for adding it.
I think I forgot to renew my .me domain as I thought that it would be of no use
conGo…Gr8 going dude..!
great idea!!! all the best!!
nice job pradeep
awesome
Great One ,Even right now I am using Google and tiny url , I will use it for my twitter postings
Congrats. This is a very good idea. This is will really help you long run.
Its Good To have your own url shortening! Great for branding
Sounds great but why does hbb.me redirect to Hellboundbloggers, I was so excited to see the service live??
Congrats for this 2011 new plans and new things
great going pradeep. looking forward to get mine as soon as possible. But before that need some advice from you
That’s awesome. Is YOURLS open to modification? I love that as long as your site is up so will your links and vise verse plus you can keep your links branded!
Nice, I love the URL: short and sweet!
Awesome mate… another innovation from The Man
another good move. nice pradeep.
Congrats Pradeep.One of the best way to branding your blog.
My best wishes to this URL shortner service dude..
This is very good to use especially if we want to personalise our brand and very easy to use the shorten url.
nice url!
hbb.me
Good stuff man
Keep rocking..! It would be great if you host it on a faster server – redirection is taking a while.
Oops, I’ll check the settings bro. Thanks.
Wow, this is so cool. Now hbb is definitely so much easier and quicker to type! Good one… can I shorten my URL too?
No Jasmine, this URL Shortener will be used exclusively for HBB posts & other sources alone.
I think you could have opened up the short url service publicly instead of being only for hellboundbloggers. I think it could come pretty much handy for us too
The main reason for launching this URL Shortener is to prevent SPAM bro, recently I encountered some issues with our blog posts.
Congrats on the new achievement
Thanks for starting this url Shortening Service
Best of Luck for your new Url shortner Service for Hell Bound Bloggers Posts
Cool, this is great. Congrats
Classic Idea…..U r in the Race wit Bit.ly n Google…!!!!
Great simply! I noticed more of the branding…
Nice service but how did you create it ?
I used YOURLS mate, it’s a script! Need to install it & configure!
Hey Pradeep. Congrats! You always have such great ideas. You can never have too much “branding”. Good luck with it.
great going on Pradeep… i liked the url…
Nice. It’s a great idea to gain Extra reputation. Carry on the service.
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The concept of URL shortener is very helpful, the URLs will be shortened so that one can post them on the social networking portals like Twitter and Facebook or video based websites like YouTube in a hassle free way.
Thanks for sharing all the info about the service.