List of useful URL Shorteners to try out
1. http://su.pr/
Features:
- Real time analytics showing how many people click through your links, how many came via StumbleUpon in particular and who the most prolific “reTweeters” have been.
- Easy publishing to Twitter and Facebook, including the ability to schedule those links and messages to be pushed out at a particular time.
- “Suggested posting time” metrics, based on historical data concerning when people are most likely to click through your links.
- A handy bookmarklet that makes submission of links quick and easy.
- Good to build traffic
2. http://ow.ly/url/shorten-url
What the Ow.ly link shortening offers:
- Sharing functionality remains the focal point of the Ow.ly social bar. This feature will keep your eyes on prize content and allow you to share easily and frequently.
- Slimmer and non-obtrusive.
- Bookmarking of links that you have retweeted.
3. http://bit.ly/
Features:
- Sharing functionality.
- History Viewer.
- Advance Tools, side bar bookmarklet, developer tools.
- Good to build traffic
4. http://is.gd/
Features:
- Shorten web addresses for emails, forum posts, blogs etc. which cannot handle long URLs and might wrap them, making them unclickable
- Lower the character count when texting web addresses to a mobile phone
- Hide the real URLs of affiliate links from visitors to your site
- Obscure your real email address from bots which harvest them to spam.
- Circumvent protections on sites which don’t allow direct links to a competitor’s site (if you are violating a site’s terms you do so at your own risk)
- Clean up bookmarks for social bookmarking sites or sites with low character limits like Twitter
- If you dislike a website and have to mention it (e.g. when complaining about it), link via is.gd so that your link does not help the site’s search engine positioning
5. http://cli.gs/cligs/new
Features:
- Statistics
- Permanent redirects
6. http://www.adjix.com/WebObjects/Adjix.woa/
Features:
- Earn revenue sharing your links
- Link data available
- White Label – Use your own domain name for shortened links
7. http://budurl.com/
Features:
- Shrink any URL into a short BudURL
- Inbound links redirect with a 307 for maximum SEO performance
- Organize all of your BudURLs into a single account
- Add notes to each BudURL to keep track of where you place it (ex: Twitter profile link, LinkedIn comment, Email signature, banner advertisement, etc.)
- Watch your Click Stream to see real-time click activity including the referrer, IP Address, Network, etc.
- Create custom BudURL vanity aliases like budurl.com/mylink
- Edit destination URL
- Reset click values
- Delete BudURLs
- Unique Visits per click
- Download click traffic
- See the keywords used to find your BudURL
8. http://tinyurl.com/
Features:
- Browser toolbar
- Control your alias by providing a custom one
- URL Redirection
- Hide Affiliate URLs
- Preview Feature
9. http://www.snipurl.com/
Features:
- Nip many URLs at once
- Attach a private key for protection
- Has an API to create shortened URL’s in your browser.
10. http://blinky.me/
Features:
- Segmentation functionality with every link shared.
- Get piles of additional data about the people who click the links.
There are many URL shorteners, but i wanted to keep the review to include my 10 favorites. They all have features that are beneficial and they tend to be user friendly also. I hope you will try some of the services and maybe you will find a favorite.
