Post Your Favorite Free URL shortener service

Heri Rosyadi · 05-19-2009, 08:25 PM

Hey Folks...

I use url shortener a lot for affiliate promo and now for facebook/twitter post.

Now I want to compare the free service out there.

Post your favorite service here and tell us why you like it...

Okay I'll go first

my recent favorite service is [Self Promotional Link Removed By Moderator]

because:
1. It's the shortest url (I think) with only 8 characters including the domain extension
2. It's simple and easy plus it has the sharing bar option where the visitor can bookmark
our link in some popular social bookmarking sites.

now your turn...

Thanks,
Heri

Heri Rosyadi · 05-19-2009, 08:34 PM

Like said in the post it become my RECENT favorite since it's still new and I use it for my last 5 links...

So it's not famous yet but I want to compare it with other more popular one like offto.net (my previous favorite)

Heri

bizgroup · 05-19-2009, 08:45 PM

My current favorite is offto.net

gtara4 · 05-19-2009, 11:26 PM

snipurl is great.

ONOFFMarketing · 05-19-2009, 11:28 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by maxyip84

tinyurl is still the best link shortener around.

That's the only one I use.

Although, I'm starting to get annoyed with the personalized links. All the good ones are taken.

InternetMarketingIQ · 05-19-2009, 11:38 PM

Why would you put an extra knot in the rope? To make it stronger? Nope.

Traffic-Bug · 05-20-2009, 01:14 AM

Bit.ly is better than tinyurl because if you append the + to the end of a bit.ly URL then it shows the statistics for that URL, thats a cool hack.

DrewG · 05-20-2009, 01:23 AM

tr.im
and offto.net
=)

Francois du_Toit · 05-20-2009, 01:33 AM

: Amendable Short URL Service is the best one I have come across.

All the best,

Francois du Toit

Agung Prabowo · 05-20-2009, 02:35 AM

I'm using tinyURL and that was a great tools!

Kevin Riley · 05-20-2009, 04:06 AM

I like a.gd for mine. It was created by fellow Warrior and buddy Rob O'Callaghan. It makes a great short URL, and you get your stats so you can see the clickthroughs on a campaign.

: Amendable Short URL Service

Glenn Leader · 05-20-2009, 05:06 AM

It is so easy to create your own service for your own personal
use.

chances are, you can stick your initials in front of url.com to
create your own. Example, if your initial are 'dum', then you
could use 'dumurl.com'. If the .com has gone, then there might
be other extensions that you can replace it with. The advantage
of using your initials is that you're branding your urls with your
name/brand. There are lots of php scripts that will manage the
system for you.

HTH

Glenn

Jesus Perez · 05-20-2009, 06:59 AM

Short URLs with analytics, social media monitoring, and geotargeting - Cligs

Vrindavan · 06-15-2009, 04:57 AM

Offto site is down now

shan05 · 06-15-2009, 05:12 AM

Right now I'm using tinyurl but I might try the other free ones mentioned in the earlier posts.

globalpro · 06-15-2009, 10:40 AM

Here's a new one that is excellent. Beta tested it and got the premium membership.

Powered Exclusively by the scrnch.me URL Shortening Service

Thanks,

John

kettlewell · 06-15-2009, 11:36 AM

I use xot.me most of the time...

Christoph Eicken · 06-15-2009, 03:33 PM

I used to like offto.net but the site is down once in a while - at least often enough for me to notice a couple of times.

Just last week I discovered scrnch.me and love the clean interface.
They have a free premium trial membership which offers lots of advanced (tracking) features.
Since it's a fairly new site I cannot comment on the reliability yet. The 10 days I am using it worked flawless.
Best - christoph

globalpro · 06-15-2009, 08:12 PM

Christoph,

If it helps, I beta tested it when it first went up and know the developer personally. Scrnch Me came about from seeing what the other services didn't offer and making it as full featured as possible. It has worked flawless since then.

The premium service is definitely the way to go.

Thanks,

John

Vrindavan · 06-26-2009, 09:23 PM

When did Scrnch Me start its service ?

In what ways it is better than others or offto ?

Thanks

Gail Sober · 06-26-2009, 10:06 PM

I've never trusted third party shorteners. One day they could just redirect your
traffic or start charging and it would be a pain to change all of the links so I
just host my own.

There are plenty of scripts out there to do it.

Plus, I like giving the links to my own site instead of
someone elses

ramkarthik · 06-26-2009, 11:02 PM

I don't know why, but recently I have been using StumbleUpon's URL shortener Su.pr - Drive More Traffic with Your Short URLs!. What I like about it is that it shows you not only the clicks but if you are into social media, you might be interested in knowing the number of visits from stumbleupon and people who have stumbled it. Su.Pr offers them all at one place, your dashboard. It gives you stats for past 30 days.

I think you can sign in if you have a stumbleupon account (most people have). If not, you will have to request for a beta invite.

Vrindavan · 06-26-2009, 11:35 PM

it goes to stumbleupon after log in

i cannot see where to shorten urls ?

ramkarthik · 06-26-2009, 11:52 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Vrindavan

it goes to stumbleupon after log in

i cannot see where to shorten urls ?

Are you using Su.Pr? If so, click on the 'sign in' link in their page. It will automatically take you to Su.Pr dashboard. Or make sure you are first signed into StumbleUpon.

Vrindavan · 06-27-2009, 12:03 AM

after log in

it does not bring me to Su.Pr dashboard,
just to SU site only

CashTactics · 06-27-2009, 12:05 AM

Hands down FREE URL Shrinking because it allows you to create a 301 or 302 redirect. And from what I can tell its up forever.

Edit: tu.nu is the domain name.

ramkarthik · 06-27-2009, 12:06 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Vrindavan

after log in

it does not bring me to Su.Pr dashboard,
just to SU site only

Weird. I have tried Su.Pr in 3 browsers and it takes me to Su.Pr dashboard. Try in a different browser. It is working for me and you can see that my recent tweet is from Su.Pr.

EDIT: Looks like they are still in beta and everyone needs invite to join. I don't remember myself using one. Or maybe I did. But Su.Pr will be soon available. You can try requesting for a beta invite from their homepage.

Vrindavan · 06-27-2009, 12:26 AM

>> 301 or 302 redirect

when should i use which one ?

gcintermed · 06-27-2009, 06:54 AM

I like easyURL.net because it's ... well, easy.
I would like to host on my own domains though, for one thing, the shorteners look tacky. And I'd rather have the traffic and links going to my own brands.

Can anyone recommend a good script for this?

Vrindavan · 06-29-2009, 12:08 AM

Do you know other URL shortening service
allow you to add a custom Title like the way Offto does ?

Does it help to drive some more clicks because of this ?

ccprosell · 06-29-2009, 01:13 AM

I prefer BudUrl or Bit.ly

Bit.ly works very good with twitterfeed and twollow.
A must have, if you promote your business on Twitter.

Mark

dave147 · 06-29-2009, 02:39 AM

I prefer to use the url shorteners from text ad sites. I think some of the above are becoming too well known

Vrindavan · 06-29-2009, 03:35 AM

>> Bit.ly works very good with twitterfeed and twollow.

why ?

>> url shorteners from text ad sites

examples?

Alminc · 06-29-2009, 03:50 AM

What scripts can be used for running a private short url service ?

jhongren · 06-29-2009, 05:52 AM

I love using Short URLs with analytics, social media monitoring, and geotargeting - Cligs =)

jk4net · 06-29-2009, 08:16 AM

I use bit.ly

SurviveUnemployment · 06-29-2009, 08:20 AM

I use my own php script on my own site so that I can track the clicks.

SurviveUnemployment · 06-29-2009, 08:24 AM

Here's the script:

Code:

<?php
    header( 'Location: http://yourlink.com' ) ;
?>

Just create a php page, name it, put that code in it, and link to it.

Could it be any easier?

igorhelpsyousucceed · 06-29-2009, 08:47 AM

I am yet to find something
better than

bit.ly, a simple url shortener

Great service+allows you to track clicks and demographics.

Igor

Vrindavan · 07-01-2009, 08:59 PM

it seems that bit.ly stat is not counting at the moment

not sure why ?

and i always confused to the two numbers of count ?
e.g. i don't think there are other people sending traffic to the same URL as me

clubvikram · 07-02-2009, 01:05 AM

i have been using tiny url for this purpose, i really didnt knew that there are so many of them available, havent heard of but.ly before, is it better than tiny url? and if yes, why is it so?? your suggestions would really help me. plzz advice

05-19-2009, 08:25 PM	#1
Heri Rosyadi Advanced Warrior War Room Member Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: , , . Posts: 731 Thanks: 18 Thanked 98 Times in 22 Posts	Post Your Favorite Free URL shortener service Hey Folks... I use url shortener a lot for affiliate promo and now for facebook/twitter post. Now I want to compare the free service out there. Post your favorite service here and tell us why you like it... Okay I'll go first my recent favorite service is [Self Promotional Link Removed By Moderator] because: 1. It's the shortest url (I think) with only 8 characters including the domain extension 2. It's simple and easy plus it has the sharing bar option where the visitor can bookmark our link in some popular social bookmarking sites. now your turn... Thanks, Heri

05-19-2009, 08:34 PM	#2
Heri Rosyadi Advanced Warrior War Room Member Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: , , . Posts: 731 Thanks: 18 Thanked 98 Times in 22 Posts	Re: Post Your Favorite Free URL shortener service Like said in the post it become my RECENT favorite since it's still new and I use it for my last 5 links... So it's not famous yet but I want to compare it with other more popular one like offto.net (my previous favorite) Heri

05-19-2009, 08:45 PM	#3
bizgroup Warrior Member Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: North Carolina Posts: 15 Blog Entries: 1 Thanks: 10 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts Social Networking	Re: Post Your Favorite Free URL shortener service My current favorite is offto.net

05-19-2009, 11:26 PM	#4
gtara4 Warrior Member War Room Member Join Date: Oct 2008 Posts: 22 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Re: Post Your Favorite Free URL shortener service snipurl is great.

05-19-2009, 11:38 PM	#6
InternetMarketingIQ Senior Warrior Member Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: US of A Posts: 2,190 Thanks: 47 Thanked 257 Times in 211 Posts	Re: Post Your Favorite Free URL shortener service Why would you put an extra knot in the rope? To make it stronger? Nope.

05-20-2009, 01:14 AM	#7
Traffic-Bug Senior Warrior Member Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Oregon Posts: 1,196 Thanks: 3 Thanked 69 Times in 61 Posts Social Networking	Re: Post Your Favorite Free URL shortener service Bit.ly is better than tinyurl because if you append the + to the end of a bit.ly URL then it shows the statistics for that URL, thats a cool hack.

05-20-2009, 01:23 AM	#8
DrewG UltimateIMGraphics.com War Room Member Join Date: Feb 2009 Posts: 539 Blog Entries: 9 Thanks: 113 Thanked 77 Times in 59 Posts	Re: Post Your Favorite Free URL shortener service tr.im and offto.net =)

05-20-2009, 01:33 AM	#9
Francois du_Toit Senior Warrior Member War Room Member Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Johannesburg, South Africa. Posts: 1,127 Thanks: 71 Thanked 54 Times in 38 Posts	Re: Post Your Favorite Free URL shortener service : Amendable Short URL Service is the best one I have come across. All the best, Francois du Toit

05-20-2009, 02:35 AM	#10
Agung Prabowo Working Class Marketer War Room Member Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Denpasar - Bali Posts: 492 Thanks: 406 Thanked 161 Times in 73 Posts Social Networking Contact Info	Re: Post Your Favorite Free URL shortener service I'm using tinyURL and that was a great tools!

05-20-2009, 04:06 AM	#11
Kevin Riley Clockwork Hamster King War Room Member Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Beautiful Downtown Osaka, Japan just minutes away from all the Sushi, Okonomiyaki, and Izakayas Posts: 9,594 Blog Entries: 2 Thanks: 476 Thanked 1,667 Times in 577 Posts Social Networking Contact Info	Re: Post Your Favorite Free URL shortener service I like a.gd for mine. It was created by fellow Warrior and buddy Rob O'Callaghan. It makes a great short URL, and you get your stats so you can see the clickthroughs on a campaign. : Amendable Short URL Service

05-20-2009, 05:06 AM	#12
Glenn Leader An Original Thinker War Room Member Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Where Original Ideas Meet Action. Posts: 3,584 Blog Entries: 1 Thanks: 594 Thanked 213 Times in 145 Posts Contact Info	Re: Post Your Favorite Free URL shortener service It is so easy to create your own service for your own personal use. chances are, you can stick your initials in front of url.com to create your own. Example, if your initial are 'dum', then you could use 'dumurl.com'. If the .com has gone, then there might be other extensions that you can replace it with. The advantage of using your initials is that you're branding your urls with your name/brand. There are lots of php scripts that will manage the system for you. HTH Glenn
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05-20-2009, 06:59 AM	#13
Jesus Perez Senior Warrior Member War Room Member Join Date: May 2008 Location: South Florida Posts: 3,062 Blog Entries: 8 Thanks: 347 Thanked 982 Times in 490 Posts Social Networking	Re: Post Your Favorite Free URL shortener service Short URLs with analytics, social media monitoring, and geotargeting - Cligs

06-15-2009, 04:57 AM	#14
Vrindavan sunsss.com Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: sunsss.com Posts: 272 Thanks: 211 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts Social Networking Contact Info	Re: Post Your Favorite Free URL shortener service Offto site is down now

06-15-2009, 05:12 AM	#15
shan05 Warrior Member Join Date: May 2009 Posts: 18 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Re: Post Your Favorite Free URL shortener service Right now I'm using tinyurl but I might try the other free ones mentioned in the earlier posts.

06-15-2009, 10:40 AM	#16
globalpro John Burnette War Room Member Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: S.E. USA Posts: 1,049 Thanks: 659 Thanked 208 Times in 175 Posts	Re: Post Your Favorite Free URL shortener service Here's a new one that is excellent. Beta tested it and got the premium membership. Powered Exclusively by the scrnch.me URL Shortening Service Thanks, John

06-15-2009, 11:36 AM	#17
kettlewell WordPress Expert War Room Member Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Grand Junction, CO Posts: 173 Thanks: 31 Thanked 17 Times in 15 Posts Social Networking Contact Info	Re: Post Your Favorite Free URL shortener service I use xot.me most of the time...

06-15-2009, 03:33 PM	#18
Christoph Eicken Warrior Member Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Houston Posts: 24 Thanks: 2 Thanked 5 Times in 5 Posts	Re: Post Your Favorite Free URL shortener service I used to like offto.net but the site is down once in a while - at least often enough for me to notice a couple of times. Just last week I discovered scrnch.me and love the clean interface. They have a free premium trial membership which offers lots of advanced (tracking) features. Since it's a fairly new site I cannot comment on the reliability yet. The 10 days I am using it worked flawless. Best - christoph

06-15-2009, 08:12 PM	#19
globalpro John Burnette War Room Member Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: S.E. USA Posts: 1,049 Thanks: 659 Thanked 208 Times in 175 Posts	Re: Post Your Favorite Free URL shortener service Christoph, If it helps, I beta tested it when it first went up and know the developer personally. Scrnch Me came about from seeing what the other services didn't offer and making it as full featured as possible. It has worked flawless since then. The premium service is definitely the way to go. Thanks, John

06-26-2009, 09:23 PM	#20
Vrindavan sunsss.com Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: sunsss.com Posts: 272 Thanks: 211 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts Social Networking Contact Info	Re: Post Your Favorite Free URL shortener service When did Scrnch Me start its service ? In what ways it is better than others or offto ? Thanks

06-26-2009, 10:06 PM	#21
Gail Sober Advanced Warrior Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: U.S.A. Posts: 741 Thanks: 59 Thanked 45 Times in 37 Posts	Re: Post Your Favorite Free URL shortener service I've never trusted third party shorteners. One day they could just redirect your traffic or start charging and it would be a pain to change all of the links so I just host my own. There are plenty of scripts out there to do it. Plus, I like giving the links to my own site instead of someone elses

06-26-2009, 11:02 PM	#22
ramkarthik Blogger Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: India Posts: 534 Thanks: 38 Thanked 47 Times in 32 Posts Social Networking Contact Info	Re: Post Your Favorite Free URL shortener service I don't know why, but recently I have been using StumbleUpon's URL shortener Su.pr - Drive More Traffic with Your Short URLs!. What I like about it is that it shows you not only the clicks but if you are into social media, you might be interested in knowing the number of visits from stumbleupon and people who have stumbled it. Su.Pr offers them all at one place, your dashboard. It gives you stats for past 30 days. I think you can sign in if you have a stumbleupon account (most people have). If not, you will have to request for a beta invite.

06-26-2009, 11:35 PM	#23
Vrindavan sunsss.com Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: sunsss.com Posts: 272 Thanks: 211 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts Social Networking Contact Info	Re: Post Your Favorite Free URL shortener service it goes to stumbleupon after log in i cannot see where to shorten urls ?

06-27-2009, 12:03 AM	#25
Vrindavan sunsss.com Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: sunsss.com Posts: 272 Thanks: 211 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts Social Networking Contact Info	Re: Post Your Favorite Free URL shortener service after log in it does not bring me to Su.Pr dashboard, just to SU site only

06-27-2009, 12:05 AM	#26
CashTactics Kris Trujillo Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Dallas TX Posts: 134 Thanks: 3 Thanked 13 Times in 11 Posts Social Networking Contact Info	Re: Post Your Favorite Free URL shortener service Hands down FREE URL Shrinking because it allows you to create a 301 or 302 redirect. And from what I can tell its up forever. Edit: tu.nu is the domain name.
	Last edited by CashTactics; 06-27-2009 at 12:06 AM. Reason: Cause you couldn't see the actual domain name.

06-27-2009, 12:26 AM	#28
Vrindavan sunsss.com Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: sunsss.com Posts: 272 Thanks: 211 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts Social Networking Contact Info	Re: Post Your Favorite Free URL shortener service >> 301 or 302 redirect when should i use which one ?

06-27-2009, 06:54 AM	#29
gcintermed HyperActive Warrior Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Oakland, CA USA. Posts: 407 Thanks: 46 Thanked 112 Times in 80 Posts	Re: Post Your Favorite Free URL shortener service I like easyURL.net because it's ... well, easy. I would like to host on my own domains though, for one thing, the shorteners look tacky. And I'd rather have the traffic and links going to my own brands. Can anyone recommend a good script for this?

06-29-2009, 12:08 AM	#30
Vrindavan sunsss.com Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: sunsss.com Posts: 272 Thanks: 211 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts Social Networking Contact Info	Re: Post Your Favorite Free URL shortener service Do you know other URL shortening service allow you to add a custom Title like the way Offto does ? Does it help to drive some more clicks because of this ?

06-29-2009, 01:13 AM	#31
ccprosell Active Warrior War Room Member Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Germany Posts: 73 Thanks: 0 Thanked 11 Times in 10 Posts Contact Info	Re: Post Your Favorite Free URL shortener service I prefer BudUrl or Bit.ly Bit.ly works very good with twitterfeed and twollow. A must have, if you promote your business on Twitter. Mark

06-29-2009, 02:39 AM	#32
dave147 Platinum Warrior Member War Room Member Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: AU Posts: 2,729 Thanks: 475 Thanked 332 Times in 270 Posts	Re: Post Your Favorite Free URL shortener service I prefer to use the url shorteners from text ad sites. I think some of the above are becoming too well known

06-29-2009, 03:35 AM	#33
Vrindavan sunsss.com Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: sunsss.com Posts: 272 Thanks: 211 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts Social Networking Contact Info	Re: Post Your Favorite Free URL shortener service >> Bit.ly works very good with twitterfeed and twollow. why ? >> url shorteners from text ad sites examples?

06-29-2009, 03:50 AM	#34
Alminc Senior Warrior Member War Room Member Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Stockholm , Sweden. Posts: 1,469 Thanks: 33 Thanked 151 Times in 92 Posts Contact Info	Re: Post Your Favorite Free URL shortener service What scripts can be used for running a private short url service ?

06-29-2009, 05:52 AM	#35
jhongren JohnYeo.name War Room Member Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Singapore Posts: 2,639 Blog Entries: 2 Thanks: 454 Thanked 237 Times in 123 Posts Social Networking Contact Info	Re: Post Your Favorite Free URL shortener service I love using Short URLs with analytics, social media monitoring, and geotargeting - Cligs =)

06-29-2009, 08:16 AM	#36
jk4net Warrior Member Join Date: Jan 2008 Posts: 23 Thanks: 0 Thanked 2 Times in 2 Posts	Re: Post Your Favorite Free URL shortener service I use bit.ly

06-29-2009, 08:20 AM	#37
SurviveUnemployment Glad I Got Canned Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: NY Posts: 681 Thanks: 330 Thanked 61 Times in 57 Posts Social Networking	Re: Post Your Favorite Free URL shortener service I use my own php script on my own site so that I can track the clicks.

06-29-2009, 08:24 AM	#38
SurviveUnemployment Glad I Got Canned Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: NY Posts: 681 Thanks: 330 Thanked 61 Times in 57 Posts Social Networking	Re: Post Your Favorite Free URL shortener service Here's the script: Code: <?php header( 'Location: http://yourlink.com' ) ; ?> Just create a php page, name it, put that code in it, and link to it. Could it be any easier?
	Last edited by SurviveUnemployment; 06-29-2009 at 08:25 AM. Reason: add more info