{"id":2881,"date":"2012-10-06T10:51:45","date_gmt":"2012-10-06T10:51:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.donegalcottageholidays.com\/blog\/?p=2881"},"modified":"2014-09-03T21:00:03","modified_gmt":"2014-09-03T21:00:03","slug":"dch-ie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.donegalcottageholidays.com\/blog\/dch-ie\/","title":{"rendered":"dch.ie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2891\" style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px;\" title=\"dch.ie - links in this image are not clickable\" src=\"http:\/\/www.donegalcottageholidays.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/dch.jpg\" alt=\"dch.ie - links in this image are not clickable\" width=\"600\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.donegalcottageholidays.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/dch.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.donegalcottageholidays.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/dch-300x112.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>dch.ie<\/strong> &#8211; you may have noticed a change in the web addresses used to share some content on Twitter. Beginning October 2012, the links are compressed into a custom short link dch.ie (<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>D<\/strong><\/span>onegal<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>C<\/strong><\/span>ottage<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>H<\/strong><\/span>olidays.com)<\/p>\n<p>The customized short links are powered by Bit.ly, a service for trimming longer web addresses into bite-sized, easily shareable links.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s much easier to include the link in your facebook post or in an email or Twitter post without it breaking or taking up space.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>How does bitly url shortening service work?<\/h3>\n<p>bitly works by issuing a &#8220;301 redirect&#8221;: a technique for making a webpage available under many URLs. When you shorten a link with bitly, you are redirecting a click from bitly to the destination URL. A 301 redirect is the most efficient and search engine-friendly method for webpage redirection, and is what bitly uses. 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