TOP 33 Free URL Shortening Sites

by skyje · Published Sep 13, 2009 · Updated Mar 25, 2011

URL shortening is a technique makes a web page available under a very short URL in addition to the original address.I collected a list of the top 30 free URL shortening services.It will help On Twitter or instant message because status even a 60 character long URL can be too long.

1.Make Long Annoying URL Short with Fly2.ws

Shorten long annoying URL with Fly2.ws. Use Fly2 links on emails, blogs nad websites

2.go2cut.com – Long Url Shortcut

Go2cut.com is tool for creating short urls from long urls. Short URL redirection

3.EasyURL

Take those messy, way too long to remember, complicated URLs (or web addresses) and shorten them to something someone could easily remember (or type in). Simply paste in that long URL into the Long URL field box and click on shorten URL and you’re done!

4.Untiny

To extract, retrieve, expand, a tiny shortened url.

5.bit.ly: a simple url shortener

bit.ly allows users to shorten, share, and track links (URLs). Reducing the URL length makes sharing easier.

6.is.gd URL Shortener – The Shortest URLs Around

is.gd – URL Shortener

7.tr.im your URLs

tr.im is for quick, easy, full-featured URL shortening with integrated posting to social networks such as Twitter, with a free public API.

8.Su.pr – Drive More Traffic with Your Short URLs!

Discover your web with StumbleUpon. It’s the best way to discover the things you like on the web.

9.Short URLs with analytics, social media monitoring, and geotargeting – Cligs

Cligs: Short URLs with analytics, social media monitoring, and geotargeting

10.Shrink a link. Track it. Grow your business. | BudURL

Statistical link tracking for social networks and beyond. Shrink. Track. Grow.

11.Snipurl / Snurl / Snipr / Sn.im – Snippetty snip snip with your looong URLs …Short URL goodness since 2001

Take the ugly long URLs all over the web and snip them into a snipurl that is short, snippy, secure, memorable, and easy to share. [Snipurl, Snurl, Sn.im, and Snipr are synonymous. You can use any one of them.]

12.tweetburner – track links you share on Twitter, and Friendfeed too!

Tracking the links you share on Twitter and Friendfeed

13.doiop.com

Some web addresses (URL) are very long and complicated. doiop creates for you a short URL with a keyword you choose, making it easy to remember or give away. This link will not break in emails and never expire.

14.tweak.tk

Rename your long URL

15.3.ly – Threely – The Shortest URL Shortener in the World!

3.ly – Threely, The Ultra-Tiny 3 Letter URL Shortener, the Shortest, Tiniest in the World!

16.Link tracking and analytics for social media | awe.sm

awe.sm is an open sharing analytics platform for social media campaign tracking across sites like Twitter, Facebook, and MySpace.

17.Adjix

Short Links. Tiny Ads. Big Payoff.

18.Linkbee.com

Linkbee is a URL shortening service that can be used with blogs, forums, websites and Twitter. Linkbee provides the following features.

19.LongURL | The Universal Way to Expand Shortened URLs

Safer, more convenient web browsing by revealing the destination of shortened URLs like those of TinyURL.com, bit.ly, is.gd, and more.

20.notlong Free Short URL Redirection: Make a long URL notlong

Make a long URL notlong so it fits easily in emails without wrapping.

21.memurl — create short & mnemonic URLs

Create short URLs that are easy to remember

22.Krunchd.com – Krunch Multiple URLs into One Short URL

Combine multiple URLs into one short URL and share!

23.moourl.com

cutest URL shortening service. If you have a really loooong URL

24.1link.in – PUT MULTIPLE LINKS INTO ONE SHORT LINK!

PUT MULTIPLE LINKS INTO ONE SHORT LINK!

25.TinyPaste

TinyPaste is a service that lets you take large amounts of text and put it all in one place, and then gives you a tiny url to share it with your friends.

26.kissa.be! – url shortener

kissa.be! – url shortener

27.Professional Short URL Cloaking Service

Make any web address smaller to use in your blog, journal, forum, or email. Includes a Firefox extention to automate the process.

28.BurnURL: Don’t Just Shorten URLs … Burn Them!

Like other link shorteners, BurnURL lets you take a long URL and turn it into a short one

29.Short URL – r.im

Create very short URL at r.im or use our short url API

30.eKey – Your Key to Shorter URL

eKey is a url shortening service which allows users to shorten their url and anonymize it. Make long urls short with just one click.

31.fur.ly | shorten multiple urls into one

Shorten multiple urls into one

32.Make A Shorter Link

Make A Shorter Link has been acquired by TinyURL.com

33.LinkBunch – Put multiple links into one

LinkBunch lets you put multiple links into one small link, such as linkbun.ch/0, which you can share over IM, Twitter, email or even a mobile phone SMS.

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Omar Aloyoun says:
Sep 13, 2009 at 8:11 pm
You can add too http://www.ZIPmyURL.com
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Carl Whalley says:
Sep 14, 2009 at 6:31 am
There is one specifically for mobiles, i.e. texts, IMs, tweets etc: http://ota.cc, “CC your URL Over The Air”.
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Bill Douglas says:
Sep 15, 2009 at 5:10 pm
What about http://twitpwr.com ?
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Free URL Shortening says:
Oct 22, 2009 at 11:17 pm
http://5pl.us is a great FREE URL Shortening Service, at only FIVE characters long (includings the domain extension .us), it creates a very short alternative url to direct your visitors to.
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Ar says:
Nov 19, 2009 at 7:23 am
Don’t forget 1URL.com – A free URL shortening & redirection service that can turn a long URL into a very short and easy to remember URL.
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Url Shorteners says:
Apr 10, 2010 at 7:17 am
If you want to spend a few bucks I recommend using clicky.me which is integrated with Clicky Web Analytics. Url Shorteners
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sherinkal says:
Aug 3, 2010 at 2:32 pm
http://blackhatshortener.com shortener with 4k domain names – thats huge number of unique links you can generate
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John Hamelink says:
Aug 5, 2010 at 3:03 pm
crum.bs is pretty good too :)
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Konstantinos says:
Jan 30, 2011 at 7:17 pm
Hello i would like to share my own shorten url service in Greek Language. Thank you! http://myurl.gr/ English languae pack is under construction. I provide website thumbnail and QR Code genarator. thank you
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Jon Rooney says:
Apr 21, 2011 at 4:05 am
You can also add http://keyfind.us to the list. It has over 15 million keys with only 4 characters.
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