Many people like to use mouse gestures as shortcuts for performing common browser tasks such as the back or refresh functions. So for those of you who want to shortcut your URL keystrokes, check out the Firefox add-on URL Alias. Using this add-on, you can provide a few keystrokes as a way to ‘fill in the blanks’ on a template URL. Their download page...

A couple of weeks ago, Google got into the DNS game with their Google Public DNS offering and now they are getting into the URL shortening pool as well. The Google URL Shortener uses the “goo.gl” domain and at the time of this writing is only available via the Google Toolbar and Feedburner. With Bit.ly and TinyURL being a couple of well known...

The web site tr.im was a URL shortening service. Most of you have probably used one of these before, such as bit.ly, sn.im, is.gd and of course TinyURL. Some examples of why people shorten long web addresses:Character limitation. Examples are Twitter, MySpace/Facebook status update, cell phone or any other environment that imposes an under-200 character limit....

Note: This tip is geared more towards system admins and web masters who manage Windows web servers. One of the big SEO items which web sites can implement is including keywords in the actual URL (for example, see the URL of this post). While this is convenient for the end users and search engines, in order for web sites to accomplish this, usually there has to...