URL shortener is a helpful tool nowadays for both webmasters and internet users that can let you easily create short web addresses from a long URL and make it a better looking short address easier to share and give away. For web 2 social sharing applications such as Blogger and Twitter, URL shortener is a compulsory tool for users to introduce a website.Many URL shortening services today are free with features to allow you to redirect websites, pass proxy, or even insert your own keywords into it in your shortening address. A short URL does not only easy to remember, look tidier, but also gives a new identity to an URL.
1. http://shlnk.com/shlnk is a free service to generate a short link for your long URL.
2. http://shorl.com/To make a long story short, Shorl makes long URLs short.
3. http://snurl.com/SNURL is fun. It allows a user to include nickname, private key and also title in the shorten URL.
4. http://ashorterlink.com/A Shorter Link is a really simple interface website. Just too bad that it is full of Google ads.
5. http://doiop.com/Doiop makes you a short URL with a keyword you choose so that you can easily remember.
6. http://memurl.com/MemURL allows you to enter a website address to make it short and easy to remember. Besides, you can also enter keywords to see info about them.
7. http://metamark.net/With Metamark, you can make a short URL and enjoy the redirection service.
8. http://notlong.com/Users can use NotLong to make a shorter link which will use redirection to send other users to the longer URL by enter keyword such as “yournickname” so that the URL becomes yournickname.notlong.com from the website.
9. http://tinyurl.com/TinyURL is my favourite, it is compatible with most web browsers and platforms, it will create a tiny URL that will not break in email postings and never expires. The new Tinyurl allows users to have a Custom alias that may contain letters, numbers, and dashes.
Feel free to share if you have encountered other better URL Shorteners Websites other than these.
February 20, 2009 at 9:08 am
I don’t know where I’d be without TinyURL.com – very very useful.