6 Best Free URL Shortening Services You Can Use for Link Sharing
At some point of time during twitter usage or even while sharing any link you feel the need to shorten the URL before sharing. This is mainly because of the space constrain. Link shortening is almost mandatory for those who use twitter for business or marketing and those who just love twitting and sharing different link with their followers. There are many URL shortening services available on net which can come for your rescue in this case. Here, I present to you 6 best free URL shortening services available according to me.
#1 Bit.ly
bit.ly allows users to shorten, share, and track links (URLs) by reducing the length of the link making sharing much easier. It is also integrated into several popular third-party Tools such as Tweetdeck. You can check out bit.ly blog for the full list of third party tools that can be found along with it. Unique user-level and aggregate links are created, allowing users to view complete, real-time traffic and referrer data, as well as location and meta-data.
#2 Metamark.net
This is also a good free Short URL redirection service. You can make a long URL short with this service. Short URLs used in spam (including email and forum spam) will be disabled.
#3 Tr.im
This is also another kind of URL shortening service you can use. There are several added advantages of this service in addition to the common services. You can add tr.im for Firefox to your Firefox to create new tr.ims right from your toolbar. And with our Firefox URL status panel — opened from your toolbar to the left — you can Review your URL list, check your Latest tr.im URL statistics, and tweet your tr.im. Moreover, if you use Apple OS X and tr.im, you definitely want our nifty tr.im Dashboard Widget. Like our Firefox extension, you can review your URL list and check your latest tr.im URL statistics at any second without disrupting your workflow, or loading their website.
#4 Budurl.com
Using this service, you can manage all of your links in one easy interface with custom notes to keep track of your placement. Further, you can see referrers, click charts, and create multiple BudURLs that point to the same destination so that you can tell which source generates the best ROI. You can also see which cities, states, and countries drive your traffic. It has got 301 and 307 redirects ensure the best tracking and search engine benefits.
This is the favorite among large number of blogger including me. It also provides many more useful features apart from shortening of URL. You can manage all your twitter profile using hootsuite. You can track all the click statistics. Graphs show not only a summary but also individual tweet statistics! You can create groups, embed columns, and feed your RSS, schedule tweets, report spam, view user info and lot more.
#6 Cli.gs
Cligs tracks the traffic going through your links. Not just that, Cligs has unique tracking and redirection features that give you the best insight. Its analytics using charts and data is very interactive. It looks like a world map that shows you where your traffic is coming from and who are the people clicking on your links. Its search engine optimized Cligs uses the 301 forward which are recommended by Google, Yahoo!, and Microsoft to help you get the best rankings benefits. The best part is you can create Custom URLs too. Get your brand name in your links! You can create links like http://cli.gs/MyBrand.
Hope you will find the above URL shortening services useful. Let me know what you Do before sharing long URLs. Which one is your personal favorite?
i am currently using bit.ly nd i think it is very good …nd i have not heard abt the 2,3 nd 4th one …nd i know abt the 5 nd 6th one but never tried
I’ve been using tiny url for a long time already. I didn’t know there are 5 more out there that is also popular.
Yes that’s why i wonder why tiny url is not listed. i think tiny url is the most famous.
i love to use bit.ly since it the shortest one, and most of the time twitter auto convert it into bit.ly (i mean the twitter application), but i also use my own url to make it look more professional
su.pr is the shortest with just 19 characters total including http:// and the link itself
ya bit.ly also can make the url look professional since we can customize it like this one http://bit.ly/WaveWithMe
Yes we can replace the code in the url with a word, it’s look more comfortable. And also, people will memorize it quickly.
Now using bit.ly and I will stick with it.
I am using bitly, all the others are new to me, will check it.
i am using tiny url while shortening my links
There are like dozens of url shortener service out there. I’m using su.pr because I find it easy to use and its under StumbleUpon.
And also it can be posted to tweeter rapidly by click the button on there.
This article have long URL, use su/pr it’s become : http://su.pr/210udI (19 character)
I m using bit.ly, short my url quickly and submitting in twitter automatically , and my visitors also increase with the help of bit.ly ..!
But from what i know, url which posted on twitter is shortened automatically using bit.ly, no need to Do manual shortening.
Manual shortening is having one benefit that we can customize the url name
I am using bitly, all the others are new to me, will check it.
In the first i wanna make Comment about : all url on twitter is converted automatically by bit.ly, but i wanna make sure one more time by tweeting this article. Hey, i find it’s not converted automatically again, what happen?
Wow never heard all of list above, usually i’m use tiny url. I’m shortening url when i want to cloacking affiliate link.
I think ping.fm is also good. can post it into twitter and other social networks.
I enter it, but i didn’t see any form to shortening an url. Where is it? Should we registered first?
There is a shortening url site which pay us if the shortened url is clicked by people, but i forget what is it. Is there anyone can remind it?
I use bit.ly and tinyurl. These are the most popular ones I guess?
http://5pl.us is a good one as well! It’s only 5 characters + your alias (custom or auto-generated). It’s still a new site so you can get one or two letter aliases no problem. eg. http://5pl.us/c