People tend to redirect URLs for several reasons. Sometimes you need to have a short and user friendly URL to pass to your friends over IM or to use it on your podcast. Other times you might want to create a redirection to hide your affiliate links (notice that I don’t encourage this practice, but many affiliate marketers do it).

Regardless of why you are doing it, though, there is a WordPress plugin that can transform your blog into a URL redirection central. GoCodes enables you to create custom URLs inside your domain that will redirect the user to any website or page on the Internet.

Suppose you are a podcaster and you want to point your listeners to some cool pictures on the Internet. Unfortunate the URL for the pictures is something long and complex, say http://www.domain.com/folder/zr/?pic&3.html. Instead of using that URL, therefore, you could use the plugin to create a redirection on your blog, say http://www.myblog.com/go/pictures/. Download