Split Your Urls

Split your Urls with UrlSnub's Splitter Tool. The Splitter Tool allows you to assign multiple Urls to a single short Url. Each new visitor will be sent to the next Url on the list, so visitor 1 will be sent to the first Url you list, visitor 2 will be sent to the second Url you list, and so forth. When the Splitter Tool comes to the end of the list, it starts again at the beginning. You can add as many Urls to the list as you want..two, twenty, or two hundred.

Splitting your Urls is useful for spreading traffic across several site mirrors. When you expect more servers than any one of your site mirrors can handle, set up your short Url so that each visitor is sent to the next mirror in the line. The load will be spread perfectly evenly across your mirrors. You can use short Urls within your own sites as well as in external links, so if your web host doesn't offer this capability, you don't know how to program it, or you know how to program it but want a more convenient solution, splitting Urls with UrlSnub's Splitter Tool gives you a simple solution.

Splitting your Urls can also be fun! Tease your friends by sending each of them to a different page when they click on your links. Or create visitor interest by adding an element of unpredictability to your site. If visitors catch on that a certain link can send them to dozens of pages, they'll click over and over again to see where they'll go. You can show your visitors all over your site, even to underappreciated pages that previously got far less traffic than they deserved, and instead of complaining, visitors will love you for it.

For an extra element of unpredictability, create split Urls that appear to only occasionally lead somewhere else.

For instance, instead of making a list like this:

Page A
Page B
Page C
Page D...

Make a list like this:

Page A
Page A
Page A
Page A
Page B
Page A...

It will appear to your visitors that most of the time the link goes to page A, but every so often, without warning or reason, the link goes to page B. Why? What's the rule behind it? When several visitors are using the link at the same time, the A, A, A, A, B, A pattern won't be obvious. To an individual visitor, where the link leads will appear to be truly random, but only sometimes. This is called intermittent reinforcement, and it's the strongest kind of reinforcement known to humans. People are fascinated by it. If you introduce your link to your visitors just right, so they're expecting an element of play (and not trying to, say, get to your site's shopping cart), they'll click and click and click. How's that for site stickiness?

As you can see, splitting Urls isn't only practical, it's entertaining. Split your short Urls with the Splitter Tool, and add value to your site.


If you have any questions or concerns about our URL services please fill free to browse our FAQ Page or Contact Us.