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1) Su.pr: The Official URL Shortener from Stumble Upon and one of the best available in the market.
- Help to Increase traffic.
- Real time analytics showing how many people click through the links and how many people came through StumbleUpon.
- Suggest the best posting time based on past data.
- Tells the number of retweets and reviews.
- History Viewer.
- Sharing functionality
2) Goo.gl: Official URL shortener from Google.
- Reliable and trusted.
- Shows real time click analytics on hourly, daily, weekly, monthly and all time basis of all the short Google links.
- Public Stats
3) Bitly:
- View complete, real-time traffic & analytics data.
- Sharing functionality
- Bitly is available via website, browser extensions, mobile web, & numerous third-party tools.
- Build good traffic.
4) Tinyurl:
- Browser toolbar
- Hide Affiliate URLs
- Preview Feature
5) Budurl: Budurl comes with lot of additional premium features apart from shortening the link.
- Emails to prospects & clients
- QR Code integration for print campaigns
- Use their Mobile Micro-Sites to drive traffic for mobile campaigns
- Schedule your Tweets
- Detailed stats of Blog posts & comments on sites
- Links to PDFs and other files on my website and in emails
- Affiliate links
- Advertising links
6) Is.gd:
- Make URLs easier to read aloud using our custom shortened URL facility or our pronounceable URL facility.
- Make QR codes of shortened URL links.
7) Cli.gs:
- Custom Links
- Private Detailed stats
- Displays geolocation data as a map rather than a chart.
- Sharing feature
Find more such web tips on www.youngblah.com.
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7 Best URL Shorteners of 2012 And Their Benefits11 Replies
Nice current 2012 article, though I expected O'Reilly to have more info on the Security of these services. One should always be careful when clicking on shiny new short links...
McAfee has a nice Safe Short URL Service - mcaf.ee and there's a blog post here. Consumer-threat-alerts-shortened-urls-201006-McAfee-Safe-Short-URL-Service-Blog
Does anyone actually appreciate these shortened URLs? I find them annoying. It's just as easy to copy a long url into the clipboard as to copy a short one.
An obnoxiously long URL linked to on a website is easily hidden in the HTML with a hyperlink. The user then just hovers the mouse over it to see the actual URL, if interested. But it it's one of those redirected things, you have to do some mucking around to see what it really points to. I often check to see what it redirects to. For example, I found this in an O'Reilly blog (with no hyperlink): http://bit.ly/IM7I84. I highlighted it, hit CTRL-C to copy it to the clipboard and executed this to fetch the header, which shows the redirection (note that the switch is a capital i): curl -I $(xclip -sel clip -o)
Hello,
I have found a very good service and a lot of options for shorten my URL's on http://e69.me. You can keep track of your links with statistics, can create QR codes, alias name for the generated links and a lot more options. I really don't like bit.ly. I am happy with the e69 url shortener.
Great list but I personally use this URL shortener. They have a multi URL shortening feature that saves me time from shortening my urls one by one. They also have statistics and some SEO features like link alias so my links appear on search engines. If your a heavy URL shortener user like me then I'd recommend http://miniurl.com. ^^
Pixsy allows you to both shorten long URL's and expand short URL's with a command line syntax. The shortener uses the is.gd service and the expander uses the longurl.org service. For any O'Reilly readers out there who might be interested, you use them like this:
URL Shortener Example .urls http://answers.oreil...3213&isAnswer=1 URL Expander Example .urlx http://is.gd/AeJa1x (it's a fake short URL) You can use these commands on the Pixsy site at: Pixsy or from the Chrome browser Omnibox with the Chrome extension: Pixsy extension for Chrome on the Chrome Store It's just another approach for these types of services. Hope that it helps.
Good point Art Wildman.. True that these links are often dangerous and one should be aware when clicking the link as we never know where it will bring us. This tool lets you preview the link and will give you an idea on where you will land.
http://www.lokeai.co...rt-url-checker/
It’s no secret that I’m a newbie when it comes to Twitter. As I became more comfortable with the service, I decided I wanted to use a URL shortener for my links when I’m posting so I’d have room to spare within the 140 character limit. Now after a few months, I’ve come to the conclusion that short “masked” links are not for me.
I was excited when I found Bit.Ly and it offered tracking reports for all of the links you shorten using their service however as weeks went on my click through rates started to dwindle down and I wasn’t sure why until I received a few messages and mentions myself which included them. Because I didn’t personally know the Twitter user and their URL was now masked behind one of the URL shortener services (Bit.ly, Ow.ly, Deck.ly, Fur.ly, TinyURL.com) there was no way in h-e-double hockey sticks that I was going to click on the link to find out what was on the other end which made a little light bulb (yes, an itty bitty one) go off in my head. No wonder no one is clicking on the links…. 
That's a cool mention. Your post is up to the mark. I also like the list of best URL shortener mentioned here.
I use Adsyce. You get paid to share your links, with many features like Mass Shrinker, Full Page Scripts, Google Analytics, Banners, Referral program, real time statics...
Ex: for http://meganfox.yzi....gorgeous594.jpg you got: http://adsyce.com/1 and profit. |
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