How do you shorten a link reference?

It could happen like it happened to me. You provide a link to your friends in your email and you hear from them saying they could not open.

They may resort to cut and paste the two pieces of what appears to be hyperlinks to get them on a line and save. Many may not go that length and just let you know that they could not open.

The solution is simple by reducing the length of the link. You can do this by pasting your original link (the long one that may get broken) by a short one. This is how you do it.

Go to this URL:

https://tinyurl.com/

Enter your link (the long one) and click Make TinyURL!. That's it. You can get the shortened url below where you entered your URL. This is free and you are not supposed to misuse it.

Now copy that and send it to you friends.

That's it.

I reduced this link which Safari could not open on iPhones/iPads:

http://hodentek.blogspot.com/2018/09/visit-
to-assisi-birth-place-of-st.html

with this one,

https://tinyurl.com/ybyzn4tl

 Google also had one of these tools and it has been discontinued for new users.

February 18, 2021 Update:  20 best URL shortners. Go to link in the image.

There are cases that just one is not enough. Power to choose is democratic.