Wednesday, May 21, 2008

URL shortening services

We sometimes need to shorten a long URL to hide affiliate link or just to make it more decent looking. tinyURL.com is the most popular URL shortenting services. As some websies blocks tinuURL we need alternates as well.
Following is a list of FREE URL shortening and URL redirect services (also known as URL forwarding service):

http://tinyurl.com/
http://notlong.com/
http://snipurl.com
http://decenturl.com
http://urlbrief.com

http://tourl.eu/
http://shrunk.us/
http://spot.bz/
http://zapurl.com
http://shorl.com/

http://www.shorturl.com/
http://www.shrinkmylink.com/
http://pinurl.com/
http://urlcover.com/
http://www.shorl.com

http://surl.se/
http://makeashorterlink.com
http://metamark.net/

11 comments:

Anonymous said...

I suggest http://sn.vc as it got a short domain and filled with useful features.

Anonymous said...

I frequently use http://is.gd . It's also very short domain. It's quite speedy.

Anonymous said...

www.fff.to is a new free URL forwarding site.

Anonymous said...

go.to is a nice free URL forwarding website. It has a lot of domains.

Anonymous said...

Here is another free URL forwarding website I have found www.oork.com

Anonymous said...

Following three sites seem to be down now:
http://www.tourl.eu/
http://www.zapurl.com/
http://surl.se/

Avoid these.

Thanks for the nice list anyway.

Anonymous said...

http://wapurl.co.uk/ is another in this streamline.

Anonymous said...

http://bit.ly/ is a nice site for free URL forwarding. It has options to send the URL directly to twitter.com

Anonymous said...

I use free dot tk domain to hide my affiliate links. This method works better than free URL forwarding services.

Register your own free domain name now!

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http://z.pe/ the shortest URL shortener