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| JURLShortener |
 Video Demo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNZqB2awyU8
JURL Shortener allows you to easily create short URLs on your own domain just like http://bit.ly and other url shortening services. JURL Shortener is an extension for the Joomla! CMS version 1.5 and is commercial open source under GNU GPL 2.0. This component is intended to easily allow site owners to create short URLs to both internal and external websites and perform basic analysis.
Providing short URLs from your website is great for marketing because even if you are providing links to an external site, people will still see your URL and will likely share your existing short URL rather than use the long one or create a new short URL. It is also useful for embedding tracking tags to monitor the popularity of different placements and influences, and which result in the greatest reuse.
JURL Shortener allows you to perform direct (HTTP 301) redirects or to use a header and place the original site in an iframe. This can help you provide social media functionality, advertising, or other features which you may provide on your site (only a basic header is included). Since JURL Shortener is written as an MVC compliant extension, you can easily customize the header or any of the output and use template layout overrides for optimal design control.
With JURL Shortener, you can create short links to both internal pages or any pages on the Internet. JURL Shortener was written to be lean, but provides great functionality. JURL maintains basic popularity statistics for each URL and records the hit count and last visit date for each entry in the database. If you want to prune or truncate your short URL database, there is a built in functionality to remove URLs that have not been visited for a user defined period of time and have fewer than a user defined number of hits. The built in statistics easily allow you to see how many URLs are in the database and which URLs are most popular
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