URL Shortening Services with Statistics

By now I've spend lots of time using Twitter for business and writing about it. While at it I tested numerous short URL services.

Finally I've found really good URL shortening services. Short URL tools that offer visitor statistics, campaign tracking, personal accounts, APIs for creating your own tools and SEO friendly links.

These URL shortening services for business Twitter usage and beyond make sense:

bit.ly
cli.gs
xrl.us [Metamark]
tiny.cc
budurl.com
twurl.nl [Tweetburner]
sn.im [Snipurl]

The list is based on my own preferences. bit.ly is the most popular of those based on user numbers as well. OK, now you can track your Twitter visitors. By now not only bit.ly tracks retweets.

Last updated: August 18th, 2010.

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February 4, 2009 · SEO 2.0, Social Media, Twitter

12 Responses

Farrhad A February 4, 2009 at 17:00 ·

Missed out is.gd, which is also quite popular.
Farrhad A February 4, 2009 at 17:01 ·

Okay sorry for the previous comment, is.gd does not track clicks.
Ben McKay February 5, 2009 at 12:11 ·

Cligs tracks Retweets too…

…nice guys too – they always respond to any queries and are always bringing out new features!
onreact February 5, 2009 at 19:04 ·

Farrhad: Yeah, is.gd is great for the casual user, for business tweeple not sufficient though.

Ben: Yeah, I know, I follow @pierrefar who’s involved in the project. I’ll add the retweet tracking to the post!
Jiri Bures February 5, 2009 at 21:00 ·

http://jdem.cz – popular Czech service.
Jackie February 8, 2009 at 08:50 ·

Can u pls tell me what r the demerits of tinyurl.com? Did u ever tried gog.is?
Merlin Silk February 11, 2009 at 03:59 ·

Hi James/Tad,

just to let you know that this page does not display right in FF – the article starts below the right side bar. When I switch FF over to the IE rendering the page displays correctly.

Merlin
onreact February 11, 2009 at 15:23 ·

Hey Merlin: Thanks for the notice. I have 3 untraceable, unchangeable bugs on my blog it seems. This one is not to be reproduced, neither on Browsershots.org nor on different machines.
What browser, system and screen resolution do you use?
Another one is the author = James bug. WordPress assigns the authors alphabetiaclly it seems.
Brett March 7, 2009 at 15:26 ·

What are the differences between the above URL shortening URLs??? Can anyone tell me.. and how about comparing them with tinyurl??
BeeMedia March 10, 2009 at 08:59 ·

Wow, this is the exact list I wanted. Didn’t have to Google long for that. Great job, guys — tinyurl isn’t always welcomed. :)
Brian March 14, 2009 at 08:16 ·

thanks for sharing this list but I want to know whats the difference between all these URLs??
Janosch February 14, 2012 at 11:36 ·

Missed out joturl.com – URL shortener + URL monitor + URL editor. Monitor means it detects changes in URLs and Link contents (even videos)! And furthermore … lots of stats and additional features …. Amazing ;-)