What is kissa.be! ?

kissa.be is a service that shortens URLs such as web addresses. This is useful in many circumstances (see below) e.g. in email clients that break long URLs.

For example you can turn

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=Be%C5%9Fikta%C5%9F,+Be%C5%9Fikta%C5%9F,+Turkey&jsv=121&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=31.839416,79.013672&ie=UTF8&oi=georefine&ct=clnk&cd=2&geocode=0,41.071553,29.023276

into

http://kissa.be/8

Preview

Simply add a hyphen (dash) to the end of the shortened URL, and instead of being redirected to the original long address automatically, you'll be taken to a preview page telling you where the link goes.

For Example

http://kissa.be/8-

Uses for kissa.be

Here are just a few of the many uses for kissa.be's URL shortening service:

• Shorten web addresses for emails, forum posts, blogs etc. which cannot handle long URLs and might wrap them, making them unclickable
• Lower the character count when texting web addresses to a mobile phone
• Hide the real URLs of affiliate links from visitors to your site
• If you dislike a website and have to mention it (e.g. when complaining about it), link via kissa.be so that your link does not help the site's search engine positioning
• Clean up bookmarks for social bookmarking sites or sites with low character limits like Twitter
• Obscure your real email address from bots which harvest them to spam (enter an address like mailto:user.name@example.com)

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