Ive produced a couple of short video presentations of how this trick works. This is the Instagram video that I made about it. This is the YouTube video that I made about it.

You can attempt this with my Bitly link of.
bit.ly/ 2ZZnuP2 which will take you to the registration page for my Practical Ed Tech Newsletter (.
https://practicaledtech.com/weekly-newsletter/). If you try the exact same link but include “+” to the end of it so it checks out like this.
bit.ly/ 2ZZnuP2+ you will go to the Bitly page where I reduced my initial URL.

Bitly is a hassle-free tool for producing brief URLs to share in place of long URLs. Ive utilized it for years to produce customized URLs that are simple for my trainees to type. Some people utilize Bitly to attempt to mask URLs to attempt to get you to click on dubious links. There is an easy way to see where a Bitly link will take you without having to really click on the link..
The technique is to simply add a “+” to the end of any Bitly URL. When you include the “+” the URL will reroute to Bitly instead of to whatever the original URL was. That will then show you the Bitly page on which the reduced URL is hosted and will show you what the original link was..