Shortening your URLs is fundamental these days, for sharing links on Twitter without having it clog up your entire 140 character span for example. Other than a better appearance, most proper URL shortener services also offer click-tracking and some even support custom URLs.
If you’re not sure about what something like this actually does, here’s an example:
This page: http://allyouneedislists.com/technology/internet/10-best-and-shortest-url-shorteners/
This page shortened: http://bit.ly/hJq98h
Wow, right?
So here’s a list of these services, have a look and tell us which one you think is best in the poll below!
1 Is.gd
2 Su.pr
3 Bu.tt
4 Bit.ly
5 Goo.gl
6 Cli.gs
7 Tiny.cc
8 Sn.im
9 Tinyurl.com
10 Moourl.com
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Monica Bedi 
Ebele Okocha 
gclatworthy 
Catalogs.com 
Jitendra Agarwal 
Miles Young 
Tommy 
Linda Michelle 
Josh Conway 
Missy 
Tom Handy (22)
washington seo (17)
Jared (15)
Corporate gifts (12)
Kelly McCartney (11)
Bennix (10)
air purifier (9)
Orange County Deals (9)
addiction treatment (8)
Gerad Hoyt (8)
Hi Sietse,
Just wanted to let you know about an english typo…….
“Sietse (Seet-suh) is the founder of Allyouneedislists.com and all-round web ENTHUSIAST Designing websites for about 10 years, but only creating content since 2009, he’s actually quite the blogging-n00b. The name is Dutch, in case your’re wondering.”
Will post a top list soon!
Cheers
Ian
Howdy Ian,
Thanks for the heads-up. I believe it’s just like “color” and “colour” though. “colour” being the original English, “color” the American equivalent
BUT seeing most readers are American, I’ll change it
Looking forward to your article!
http://letb.tk/ :: it is the best url shortner !!
I prefer 3.ly!
I prefer u.nu. Three characters, wow!
Good find Radhika, thanks for sharing! That’s a very short shortener indeed!
j.mp is the best – it is by the same people who made bit.ly, but it is shorter
awesome, didn’t know that one yet! Thanks for mentioning it here 4lien
bit.ly urls can be shortened further: j.mp (using the same URL path)
FUG.LY and X.CO.
Also PNOY.ME for Filipino peeps out there.
thanks, didn’t know those! I like the FUG.LY one
I just made http://vib.tw. What are your thoughts on this URL shortener?
I just want to say be careful when clicking short urlz. My brother got investigated by the police after he clicked one of these links and it turned out to be a police site to catch pedophiles!!! The only way to be safe is to not click short links or check it first with a site like this..
http://u2r.in/check
Good tip! Thanks for sharing Julie!
Instead of not clicking any short URLs at all, just expand the URL using this website http://checkshorturl.com/
Another “shortening” service is http://smarturl.it. Although it isn’t the shortest shortener, this one has some great features, like geographical redirection based on country, retargeting, passing query string parameters through to the URL and more!
Ive learn a lot of info to your site about url shortener. Nice post!
I have also seen a new url shortner…
http://ab.cd
I think this is Easy… just A B C D…..
yeah that one’s very easy, thanks for sharing Andy!
Well worth checking out http://bdb.im, it allows tracking and produces very short URL’s along with auto posting links to twitter and facebook if required.
I prefer http://x.vu the shortest url shortener which has been around for over 2 years! They offer a basic url shortener for now, but I heard there’s a big update coming soon, introducing lot’s of new features!
If you need more statistics on the transitions and the ability to share a link to Twitter and social networks using http://hsu.su the way there you can set custom url and much more
Adfly is the best in my opinion, multiple domain names to choose and they pay you if someone clicks your links, it’s not that much but on the other hand, the others don’t pay anything and do the same.
http://adf.ly/?id=919051
I recently came across a new url shortener website called http://www.short.nr/ I would recommend this website as it is easy to use and has a quick process to it.
yi.tl just launched: http://yi.tl
yi.tl is the first URL shortener to offer support for category tags. This unique service allows users to group related URLs and easily retrieve old links. To save time, the site will even make tag suggestions based on the URL being shortened.
➡.ws
uses unicode to make shortest urls possible ( ➡.ws/▓▓ )
WOW, that’s great too !! thanks for sharing.
@dun3r On tinyarrows.com you get that one and a bunch of others!
@dun3r On tinyarrows.com you get that one and a bunch of others!
Two words:
Linky Gaga
Three letters:
l.gg
http://l.gg
Features individual link tracking and management, and Digg-style voting for everybody on the front page.
http://urlcut.org
simple, fast, reliable, ad-free url shortener with click counter. What more could one want?
And now, the latest of July 2012, http://gg.gg is the SHORTEST URL Shortener ever…
Best one for me is http://qoon.com
Flavr.fi is just awesome! I am expectin that they gona make it super cool! Supports qr code etc!
the one is http://u.glob.tk it work great and generate QR Code of shorted url so that it can be used for mobile
If you ask me http://urlglo.be/ is the best. http://urlglo.be/ is very fast and easy and it has custom urls without you needing a account or something!!!!!
Hello, if you want update list, this http://in.tecn.it is a good url shortener service, with user control panel, free and very fast.
http://urlglo.be/ is a very good site to shorten and customize yout urls. Besides http://urlglo.be/ is without all the mambojumbo other sites have these days!
Hi!
I use http://nut.lu
Fast and free
admin plz update ur list
here is new URL shortner : http://itiny.in
A URL shortener that’s fast and easy to use. Our features include custom shortened URLs with real-time link tracking
also has features like facebook share, tweeter share and google + share also has QR code for url
http://hpstr.ly is fun url shortener if you’re looking for something with a bit of humor.
you can use http://ilurl.com to create short URLs and QR code , it’s easy to use
I like this new URL shortening service: ex1.us creating a new short url is fast n easy, I simply get_file_contents using php from a URL like this: http://ex1.us/?to=http://www.google.com/
What about http://urlglo.be/? It’s nice right?
I run a guinea pig charity URL shortener called http://wheek.it, its tagline is “shorten links + raise money for guinea pig rescue”. Thanks!
Is it easy to customise your own link shortener?
Thanx for the HUGE list!!
…you might consider adding http://cash.ac which is a new url shortener with stats. Perfect for posting affiliate links and such, I´ve had great success with it.
Keep up the good work!
Love,
Lisa
I found a url shortener that is very fast and has a lot of features. I really like so I share it: http://exc.lu
We can have: Alias, API, Bookmarklet, QR code (on detail page), Geo Targeting and maybe more but i don’t know
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How about the new one http://make.my
really catchy Name too!
I quite like reading a post that will make men and women think.
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I prefer http://adsyce.com, check the payouts rates and you will see that no one pays better.
I prefer http://seite24.tk/ or the classic bit.ly.
I prefer http://bek.im
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