10 Best URL Shorteners and why they are good

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.