My friends on Twitter report that TinyURL is or was down. What to do when TinyURL is down if you need short URLs (concise Internet/web addresses or URL forwarding) for Twitter or elsewhere?
Fortunately there are lots of URL shortening services. I tested multiple of them and found out the best 10 TinyURL alternatives.
Short URLs which are
- even shorter
- easier to remember
- make more sense fur human readers in the first place
instead of the cryptic TinyURL URL strings.
Check out these 10 short URL services that are more advanced alternatives to TinyURL: The first link is the homepage of the service, second is my example, I shortened this URL: http://seo2.0.onreact.com/top-10-fatal-url-design-mistakes
- is.gd, http://is.gd/LVK
- www.x.se, http://www.x.se/jpfv
- urlpass.com, http://urlPass.com/9n3
- yep.it, http://yep.it/10url
- xrl.us, http://xrl.us/urldesign
- urlcut.com, http://urlcut.com/urldesign
- doiop.com, http://doiop.com/urldesign
- urlpire.com, http://www.urlpire.com/?urldesign
- thnlnk.com, http://thnlnk.com/onreact/urldesign/748
- d95.com, http://d95.com/urldesign
Number 1 – 4 are shorter than TinyURL, number 4 – 10 are more readable. #10 d95 has a clue: It creates a frame-set for your URL so you see on the URL shortcut in the address bar of your browser and the original page gets no direct credit, which is advisable in some cases.
Feel free to spread this list.
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http://www.twurl.nl
directly supported by the twhirl twitter client
Karsten: I tested Twurl but it doesn’t work here. I click “shorten it” and nothing happens. Also the font is unreadable without anti-aliasing (used on all systems before Vista).
I didn’t even know half of these existed – thanks!
I also came across this, which is a neat tool, not to be used the same way as above, but pretty cool nevertheless ;)
http://tinypaste.com/
Lid: I get an error there :-(
I didn’t know ANY of these existed! Thanks!
Question: How does using these services affect SEO?
Another simple service which also can password protect your links is:
http://thinfi.com
A new short url service is takeme.to/short-url
Very memorable address. Keywords only 1.99
try this one 4url.cc
Very helpful post, really needed tinyurl today, but it was down. Need it for maps, etc for Arizona Real Estate work.
Thanks for the help.
imho nice domain for tiny urls service http://uris.us/
http://go2cut.com – URL shortucts
I recommend on http://www.k7u.info – very easy, fast and cool short URL service.
Have difficulties with never-ending URLs? Diggurl will solve all your problems.
Visit http://www.diggurl.com to create shortened/redirected URLs to any long URL.
# Free! No registration required.
# Manage your shortened URLs.
# Set temporary download links and protect them with password.
# Hide your URLs from search engines and bots.
# Cleaner bookmarks in your web browsers.
# Continuous URLs in emails.
# AJAX interface;
# Bulk URL shortening;
# Password-protected URLs;
# Temporary URLs;
# Custom tags;
# Custom tags for bulk URLs (automatically assigned tags like tag1, tag2, tag3 and so on);
# Redirects statistic – referer domain, referer page, visitor’s IP (+ link to geographical information about each visitor), date;
# URLs and hits statistics can be seen even without registration (IP-based authorization);
# Registered users: edit/delete URLs;
# Mass upload URLs from file;
# Export links to CSV file;
You can take a look on that short url site:
http://shoxt.com – really easy to use
If I can plug my own URL shortener I’d like to. urlShort at http://u.mavrev.com.
i2h.de outrules them all. It comes with the most advanced api for developers. http://www.i2h.de
checkout this new one http://pfx.com, what i like about it is their Facebook app for managing the tiny urls, http://pfx.com/fb
It’s a great idea, especially when considering links for SEO.
for me http://surlme does the best.
Nice collection I’ll add one more
http://jals.in
This one works well – http://urlsnip.biz
Also check gourl.gr
IT is very stable so far.
“Generate Secure Short Links with Anonymous Referers, Anti-Bot Protection and Unique Thumbnail Previews.”
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