Thread: Want to include links to presentations, videos, etc. but (a) want to be able to control what that URL points to in the future, (b) don't like the look of very long, cryptic URLs and (c) worried that URL shorters come & go (bye, goo.gl)?
Here's a trick - create an HTML file with the name you want e.g., "<cool_project)_slides.html then, inside put a snippet of code for an immediate redirect: (nb: I'm missing a ">" in my screenshot - that's not part of the code) 
In the URL block, put that ugly URL to your slides on Google Drive / Present / Dropbox whatever
Then in you papers / tweets / etc. use this URL:
my-personal-website.com/cool_project_s… Anyhone that clicks will be redirected.
my-personal-website.com/cool_project_s… Anyhone that clicks will be redirected.
Added bonus - I'm pretty sure you'll still get the PageRank juice when people use your customized URLs. The End.
Oh one more point - when you want the URL to now point to something else, you can go change the HTML to point to new thing.
