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Comment on Ask HN: Do long, [funny], descriptive URLs help?

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Don't use such URLs for your business or products. You want your name to be short, memorable, and work with social media.

Long novelty URLs help micro content sites go viral, just make sure to include some prominent share buttons. The trick is to make many of these novelty websites that relate to your main product, and then link to that in the footers.

An example of someone who's used this technique multiple times before is TheOatmeal[0], though the only one I can remember off the top of my head is ThingsBearsLove[1].

[0] http://theoatmeal.com/

[1] http://www.thingsbearslove.com/

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