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Rel_Shortlink Module

The rel=shortlink meta-tags are an effort to reduce the number of short URLs for the same page as well as giving the website owner a certain degree of freedom as to what his shortlinks look like.

mod_rel_shortlink is a simple Joomla! module that fetches a short URL for the page it is displayed on and sets either a rel= shortlink, rel=alternate shorter, or rev=canonical meta-tag. The short URL may then be displayed in a module position using mootools to make for a slide effect. To reduce the number of http-request optionally the short-links may be written to a .txt-file. When a page is then requested mod_rel_shortlink first looks through the saved short-links before it asks the URL shortening service.

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