- Oct 20, 2018
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Hi guys,
It's the first time, I stumbled upon this. Shortened a URL using https://cutt.ly/ but unknowingly, I made a typo of the shortened URL before hitting Enter as https://cutt.ly/p 'cause I didn't copy the entire URL. To my surprise, the URL straight-up redirected me to ProductHunt homepage.
There are two possibilities here:
1. The URL was generated by somebody using Cutt.ly by simply using the p as an acronym for ProductHunt.
2. Cutt.ly straight-up sold their 404 pages to ProductHunt. This could be a big way to make money especially if you have an insane amount of traffic to your website or 404s for that matter. So the deal would be like this: you and your advertiser agree to auto-redirect all 404 error pages to their site. I never thought about this until now.
This prompted me to investigate further. So I decided to test https://cutt.ly/hjjjshdhdgsfgsffsfgwefefwuyhvjjhhdgfsdffbdb
But oops...I got a 404 error page. So I was only right with the 1 possibility.
What now? You may want to give the 2nd possibility a shot but make sure you take enough money from your 404 clients especially if you have way too many potential traffic-generating 404 pages. Let's see how it goes.
It's the first time, I stumbled upon this. Shortened a URL using https://cutt.ly/ but unknowingly, I made a typo of the shortened URL before hitting Enter as https://cutt.ly/p 'cause I didn't copy the entire URL. To my surprise, the URL straight-up redirected me to ProductHunt homepage.
There are two possibilities here:
1. The URL was generated by somebody using Cutt.ly by simply using the p as an acronym for ProductHunt.
2. Cutt.ly straight-up sold their 404 pages to ProductHunt. This could be a big way to make money especially if you have an insane amount of traffic to your website or 404s for that matter. So the deal would be like this: you and your advertiser agree to auto-redirect all 404 error pages to their site. I never thought about this until now.
This prompted me to investigate further. So I decided to test https://cutt.ly/hjjjshdhdgsfgsffsfgwefefwuyhvjjhhdgfsdffbdb
But oops...I got a 404 error page. So I was only right with the 1 possibility.
What now? You may want to give the 2nd possibility a shot but make sure you take enough money from your 404 clients especially if you have way too many potential traffic-generating 404 pages. Let's see how it goes.
