How To Shorten The URL To Your Bukisa Articles

The longest url to my Bukisa article is for my article Losing Weight : 2 Very Important Steps to Achieve Your Ideal Weight. The url is so long as to be so cumbersome and when I try to leave links on other site, I sometimes make mistakes because of the long url. Since then, I have found a way to shorten the url to my articles in Bukisa. Check out the url to my article 6 Tips You Must Know When Writing Compelling Titles. Even though the title is long the url to this article is short and easy to remember.

I want to share with you how I manage to shorten the url to my Bukisa article and at the same time making it seo-friendly. You should know by now that search engines will look at your url to determine if your website fulfils the requirements of the search query. In this article, I will show you how you can make your Bukisa article url short as well as seo-friendly.

What you need to do first is to write your article in Bukisa text editor. Then you must determine the keyword you want to optimize. In the above example the keyword I want to optimize is compelling titles. Put this keywords in the title box. This title may not look enticing but it will tell the search engine that your article is about compelling titles.

After completing your article and filling in the necessary boxes, publish your article. You will receive a notification from Bukisa that your article has been submitted and you're given the url to your new article. Notice the url for the above article is http://www.bukisa.com/articles/137995_compelling-titles which is short and sweet.

But you don't want this to be the title of your article because it won't entice the readers to click and read your article. So what you need to do is to go to your Content page. You will get a list of the articles that you've submitted and those that are already published and those that are still under editorial. At the Compelling Titles article line you'll see a pencil icon which is for editing your article. Click on that icon and you will be brought to the text editor page. At the title box, you'll see your title Compelling Titles. Change it to the title that is more attention grabbing. Then go to the bottom of the page and click save. Now, you're done. Your article url will be short and your title will be attention grabbing.

To summarize, below is a list of what you need to do to shorten the url of your Bukisa articles.

1. Go to Bukisa text editor and write your article.
2. Fill in the title with the short url of your choice.
3. Publish your article.
4. Go back to your article and go to edit your article.
5. Change the title of your article to something more compelling. Then click save.

Voila, you've got a shortened version to your Bukisa article url. This is how you shorten the url to your Bukisa articles.