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There is always a service provider risk associated with URL shorteners. That is why you should use reliable URL shorteners.
Free URL Shortener Tools (screenshots, differences)
When looking for a URL shortener, it's good to know that some do little more than convert long links into short ones, while others let you customize the text of new URLs, track click-through rates in a dashboard, and analyze other information about who's clicking on your links.
Additionally, most URL shorteners have a free tier of service, but you often have religious email list to pay for additional features such as data and analytics.
Below we'll give you a list of reliable, free, and easy-to-use URL shorteners to get you started shortening your URLs.
Tinyurl.com
tinyurl.com allows you to create short and custom URLs. This is very useful to make them consistent with the theme of the site or the page linked to it. The steps to follow are very easy. You just have to go to the official tinyurl.com website, enter the URL of your website and click on “Make TyniURL”.
Additionally, you can fill in the custom alias field to customize the URL. Thinking, in our case, to talk about the landing page of our Inbound Marketing services , for example, we write these two keywords inside the string. After processing the request, the URL is returned with the customization “Inbound Marketing”.
Bit.ly
Secondly, we will mention bit.ly: It is a fast tool. The adjective fast is due to the fact that the process involves only inserting the link and bit.ly will shorten the URL without having to enter any further information. Immediately, you will get your short URL.
Bit.ly will allow you to track the short URLs you create with an analytics page for each URL. You can determine their top referrers, reader location, actual clicks. Bit.ly is free. Some people have been confused when their Bit.ly stats and their Google Analytics stats don't match up. Here may be the reasons:
No two analysis programs display the same data; they all have different interpretations of the data.
When you use Bit.ly (and possibly any URL shortening tool) to shorten a URL on, say, Twitter, the platform will fetch the link via bots/spiders. Your Bit.ly stats will include those fake hits in your stats. We say “fake hits” because those aren’t actually pairs of eyes seeing your content, they’re just Twitter bots finding the link. Google Analytics won’t count those bots in your stats.
Doiop
Doiop creates a short URL with a keyword you choose, making it easy to remember or share.
This tool not only shortens your URL, but they also give you the option to choose a specific keyword to include in the URL. The result is something like . This service won't allow you to track your stats, but you can use Google Analytics to track your users' behavior or referral information for the page you're linking to.
