What is the best URL shortening service?

Hi John,

Have you looked at Googles new url shorting service?

http://Goo.gl

I've not used/looked at it yet but it looks promising.
Here is an article from PC Mag - Google Opens Goo.gl URL Shortening Service to the Public | News & Opinion | PCMag.com

Hope that Helps,
Have a Great Day!
Michael

Hi Michael,

Thanks for the google suggestion but it doesn't give me a place for notes for each shortened url. For example, I have a number of free ebooks available to my subscribers and to other marketers to promote. I'd like to track which shortened links are from my branded copies and another affiliate's branded copies.

Does that make any sense? LOL.

Any other suggestions?

John

Give cli.gs a look, I've heard good things about there service. As well as budurl.com. Hope this helps

Personally, I like:

pleasefeelfreetouseourwebsiteinordertoreducethelen gthofyoururls.muchshorterurls

With apologies for sounding a cautionary note, John, the only one I'd want to use myself would be one that I own and control myself.

For me, it would be a mistake to allow my business to be dependent on the continued availability, reliability, existence and terms of service of an unnecessary third-party service. Just look at all the Warriors who had a major panic during last year when Tinyurl suddenly went into bankruptcy and all their links disappeared overnight (and for a while, before luckily being rescued, and the links salvaged, on that occasion, by a new corporate owner).

For me, it would make absolutely no sense at all to put myself in this position, when (for all my purposes - though I appreciate yours may perhaps be different?) there are far more reliable, sensible alternatives available which will leave me in control, instead of someone else, if anything goes wrong.

I don't see Google going anywhere, it's true, but the world and the forum were full of people saying exactly the same thing about Tinyurl the day before that one suddenly disappeared. I really do find it difficult to understand why people take a chance on these things. Aren't there any other ways around whatever your problem is?

(Digression alert: call me a skepchick, but I do find it pretty difficult to take people seriously when their sig-file here is trying to sell internet marketing advice, and the link they want me to click on, to find out about it, is "tiny.cc" or something similar :rolleyes: ).

i like budurl I can have it say whatever I want.

IE use ebook name at the end of budurl.com or whatever the URL is about.

Hey Alexa, you know, I was thinking the same thing.

I use redirects in many cases ... any suggestion how I might easily monitor traffic to these redirects?

John

Shrink a link. Track it. Grow your business. | BudURL allows you to name your own URL, that way you can remember what it is easily.

I was going to suggest phurl but found this link to 7 open source url shortener scripts: 7 Open Source And Free URL Shortener Scripts To Create Your Own

I have recently installed my own using yourls free script. I am much happier having it in house.

Have a look at shorturl.com
it is free but the paid option (1.8$ per URL) is very good and actually lets you
put in meta tags and more. I specially recommend the sub-domain option

+1 for goo.gl. Used it today and its really awesome

I totally wasn't even aware TinyURL went to the birdhouse.

Google just released their version of a url shortener. I am not too sure as to what all it does. However I know it does track clicks and will link to yur analytics and so on. It may offer just what you are looking for.