tinyurl is it or is it not safe?

That is the question I have today. I have been doing research on the web while coughing, hacking, sniffling and wondering why I ever try to do anything while dealing with a cold… I signed up for payperpost finally and it wants me to put tinyurl in my template. I’m not sure I want to do that. Any thoughts? Do you think it is safe? Has it ever loaded a virus on your machine? Would you continue to come to my site? Let me know.

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7 Responses to tinyurl is it or is it not safe?

  1. Marie says:

    I did one post for them. Just didn’t come naturally to me, & I didn’t care for it. I don’t read them on others’ sites, but I understand why they’re doing it! Of course I’d keep you on my feed — I just tend to skip the “commercials” that come by on my feeds. ;-) No biggie.

  2. pam says:

    Tinyurl is safe. Have you ever been to their site? Basically it’s a redirect kind of thing; you enter a really loooong url into the box and it spits out a short one for you.

    Lots of people use it on the net.

    That izea tool kit or tracking stuff… that might slow your site down a mite, though.

  3. Jennifer says:

    I have no clue as to what you’re talking about. Sorry. :S

  4. vw bug says:

    Jennifer: No problem. I finally was able to get signed up with ppp… and they want you to insert a line of code that has ‘tinyurl’ in it before the . This has been marked as a possible way for viruses to get spread. Not that it has been done, but a possibility. I was wondering what anyone else had found out.

    No biggie… I inserted it after some more research. I will just keep an eye on the geek sites to make sure it doesn’t become a problem.

  5. GUYK says:

    So far I have turned down offers to write posts advertising a product…and I have told each one that I can be bought but not for what they are offering…the best offer so far was 14 dollars a post for an offshore internet gambling site…ain’t no way..I have about 300 hits a day..so I figure each hit ought to be worth a minimum of fifty cents…and ain’t no doubt that if my loyal readers see that I am getting paid to advertise they wouldn’t be loyal anymore…I had rather have my traffic than the money..

  6. vw bug says:

    Guyk:Everyone still seems to come around so far. I have done about $60 worth of posts this last 4 weeks. While I am learning about the different ones, I am deciding if it is worth it or not. So far, no one has left. If my family or friends (blog friends included) start leaving, the money part stops. Like I can’t see doing anymore Review Me… unless it is something really cool… or socialspark. Nope, doesn’t fit my style. The payu2blog seems to be ok. I use it as ‘post prompts’.

    We’ll see how it goes.

  7. wRitErsbLock says:

    tiny urls seem ok. The problem many of us had with PPP was their special codes negatively affected the google page rank. So, at first, with PPP, I had a huge PR, but then because of PPP’s codes, I got slapped down to a zero, which then made me inelligible for most of PPP’s opps. So, I stopped writing for them on Pville, and my PR has slowly climbed, but I’m still only a 2 when I was a 4.

    I haven’t had any problems with PU2B. I, too, look at their often ridiculous terms as writing prompts.