URL Shortener Announces Unique New Features for US Business

July 11, 2010 - PRLog -- An open letter to all users of URL shortening services:

http://onecent.us is an American owned and operated alternative to http://bit.ly (LIBYA) and other foreign domain URL shorteners. We don't want to embarass anyone but some of our nation's most PROMINENT political figures who use Twitter to get their messages out, as well as TV, Radio and Print news businesses who boast "America" or "US" in their name use foreign services like this. American jobs are being LOST!  Why?

In the meanwhile, dot US domains are not all that popular in general. Is it simply because we are American?

OneCent.US is FREE like the other URL shorteners but is also:

1) US based!
2) US owned!
3) US operated!
4) eager to pay US taxes!
5) has US based customer service!
6) is eager to provide American jobs!
7) has NO voice recognition system, talk to a real live American! 1-631-455-8756
8) has a dot US domain name you can TRUST to be around to keep your links working!
9) donates 90% of its advertising revenue to US based charities based on user voting!
10) fights the loss of American jobs and gross national product to foreign based domains!

Not good enough? OneCent.US ALSO features these optional features, most of which NO ONE else offers! 7 out of 10 of them we believe NO ONE else offers or has not even THOUGHT of yet! And all but ONE is FREE. We humbly apologize in advance if we are wrong on any of these claims and encourage  anyone to correct us and we will issue a hearty correction with as much gusto and effort as this letter.

Here's what we offer over and above just providing shortened URLs.

1) create your OWN custom URL name if it's not taken already

MOST if not many url shorteners DO have this feature.

2) add prefix and or suffix to your short URL for branding  and content

We don't know anyone else that lets you do this...

3) add a movie style rating to give a comfort level to your users, RatedG, R, even X to warn of adult content...

We believe we are unique and that no one we know of lets you do this!

4) adjust the redirect wait time to show a message to the end user

DITTO 3) and 4) above!

5) select charity from a drop down list to tell us who to donate to

Some other URL shorteners do donate a percentage of their revenue to charity, i.e. Good.ly another Libyan domain name, but they donate 55% and keep 45% to run the web site. Plus you have to buy something for the donation to occur. We donate 90% of gross advertising revenue. No gimmicks. We even publish what the advertisers are paying so you can bid higher than them and knock them out of the more visible spots on our site.

There ARE some url shorteners who donate 100% to charity and we applaud them, but we ARE a business and make no pretense about it.

In addition, we provide FREE advertising to any charity that shows us they are US tax exempt non-profit and/or 5013C.

6) Add SEO to your page - produce and clone finely tuned SEO optimized landing pages to rank high in search engines to attract and drive traffic to your site.

THIS IS UNIQUE AND POWERFUL! It is our ONLY paid feature on the site, other than advertising. We think it absolutely rocks the booty pop.

7) add optional custom page content of any length to your page...

Previously unknown in this business we believe and we know of no one else who offers this. Designed to help page rank for search engines and optionally get an additional message across. And again, it's FREE!

8) sweeMail © 2010 onecent.us - Instead of a plain old redirect, create a short URL for a preformatted email for your users to customize and send to either a suggested person, i.e. their Congressman, or just to recommend products, services or your site to people they know. Think! This incredible new marketing and public relations tool is free and DESTINED to have copycats in short time!

9) Advertisers NAME your own price! Ads run 1 day to 1 week, can auto renew, rebid or expire, cancel anytime for refund of unused days! Knock a higher bidder out of the top spot or wherever you want your ad placed in increments of only One Cent US! Now you know where our name comes from.

Not a new totally idea, but our method of the highest bidders ranking first and even above the fold at a locked in price for up to 30 days we believe to be either an uncommon or possibly unique twist! We're not sure, but we think it's nifty.

10) FREE online REAL TIME tracking information is to be available to registered users only-for viewing either online or download in spreadsheet file format!

Nothing really new here but we we are eager to make it better. We listen to our users and invite them to email us with suggestions as available below, text us or even CALL US at 1-631-455-8756 7 days a week at any reasonable hour Eastern time, sunup to sundown. We WILL talk to you and/or return your call or text message!

Also, you can follow us on Twitter http://twitter.com/onecentdotus .

Visit http://onecent.us today and discover the full potential of an American owned and operated URL shortening service

Thank you,
Bill Purkins
OneCent.US