Last Updated on September 10, 2020 by Roshan Parihar
when you want to share something on social media, you heard about URL shortener many times for shortening long links.
The trend started from twitter because twitter is the social media site which allows only 140 character limit. To describe all your concept as well as a link to your blog, you need to use shortened URL.
For that purpose, many bloggers and website owners start using the URL shortener sites. But they don’t know which URL shortener sites the best suit to their business.
Well, Due to that reason, Here, In this blog post, I will share some top URL shortener websites you can use to shorten your long links or shrink long URLs and use them in social media.
1. Google URL Shortener
Google URL Shortener is the new URL shortening service started by the Google. The service is quite popular in social networking sites like twitter and facebook.
You can use this service to shorten your website URL as well as analyze the data. The analysis contains the user click data which is most useful when you want to track the popularity of your blog.
For example: Suppose you want to shorten the URL https://tutorialdeep.com/my-example-post. Google URL shortener provide this https://goo.gl/8ML5rA as the shortened URL
Check out Google Shortener Review to check the detailed features of the service. In the review page, you can check how to use the Google URL shortener to shorten your URL in just single click.
2. Bitly URL shortener
Bit.ly is the oldest URL shortening service came before Google URL shortener. The service also offers you to track your URL clicks and analyze the popularity of the page. Bit.ly is the most widely used URL shortener. With the analysis data, find out how many clicks you will get after you place your URL on the social media websites.
When you open the dashboard, you can check all your URL in the shortened URL list. The dashboard also contains the graph to show you the analytic data for the user clicks.
For example: Suppose you want to shorten the URL https://tutorialdeep.com/my-example-post. Bitly URL shortener provides this https://bit.ly/8ML5rA as the shortened URL.
After you shortened your website post URLs, you can share them to your social media accounts.
3. Bit.do
bit.do is the URL shortening service offers you to custom shorten your website URL. You can put your own brand name with the URL. Cool service isn’t it.
In addition to this, you can find your URLs in the dashboard lists. The analytics of the data for URL gives you visitors click and popularity of your blog posts.
Follow your user clicks with the real time data directly to your dashboard. Put and promote your URL and get referring website from where you got more clicks.
Track the country of the visitor’s analyses which is popular in which country. Another reason to choose this service is your URL will never expire after you have created it.
4. Shorte.st
Shorte.st is the URL shortener which also allows monetizing your blog with the ads. However, the ads are not good for your blog to get click by the user and let them see an ad on your website.
By using the short link to your post, pages, and comments, when people click on these links. They will see an ad and on display of the ad, you will get some money.
For example: Suppose you want to shorten the URL https://tutorialdeep.com/my-example-post. Shortest URL shortener provides this URL as https://Shorte.st/8ML5rA as the shortened URL.
They also provide you with some click stats to check whether you are getting users for the URL or not. You will also get some script you have to place to your web pages to monetize your blog.
5. Owly Hootsuite URL shortener
Ow.ly is the link shortener service provider by HootSuite. HootSuite is the best social media marketing tool you can use to auto share your blog post to major social media pages. The tool is the best solution your social media management system to manage your social media accounts.
For example: Suppose you want to shorten the URL https://tutorialdeep.com/my-example-post. Hootshoot URL shortener provides this URL as https://ow.ly/8ML5rA as the shortened URL. The shortened URL looks really small as compared to other URL shortener services.
When you share your blog posts with the social media accounts, Hootsuit shortens your URL with its service. Ow.ly is the good looking URL when you want to share something to your social media pages.
6. TinyURL.com:
TinyURL is the oldest URL shortener yet use by many oldest blogger and used by many social marketers. The shortened URL from the service looks little longer than the other shortening service.
For example: Suppose you want to shorten the URL https://tutorialdeep.com/my-example-post. Tiny URL shortener provides this URL as https://tinyurl.com/8ML5rA as the shortened URL. The shortened URL looks a really little bit longer as compared to bit.ly, ow.ly and Google URL Shortener URL shortener services.
7. Is.gd
Is.gd is the most simplest and useful URL shortening service. When you open the website you will get the simplest input box where you have to put your website blog post URL to make it shorter.
There is no registration required for this service to use. With no other features and a simple page is.gd URL shortener can be used by any beginner blogger to shorten their URL. You can also use the service to share your blog posts on the social media websites.
They use cookies to show you, your shortened URLs and the counting number of URLs they shortened.
For example: Suppose you want to shorten the URL https://tutorialdeep.com/my-example-post. is.gd shortener provides this URL as https://is.gd/NGX8kK as the shortened URL. The shortened URL is really very smaller as compared to bit.ly, ow.ly and Google URL Shortener and other URL shortener services.
If you want to automatically share your blog posts, you should read How to auto-share new blog posts and How auto-share old blog posts.
Hope, you like this post. If you want some help you can email to Tutorialdeep mail id [email protected].
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Which URL shortener you are using? Do comment below.
have used all of them, but after some time the click number has decreased. so i just checked for some new shortener and found a lot of new ones, actually i’m using https://urls.tn who provide 1000 Tiny domain that can be used, the pricing is too high but i’m trying the one month free trial.
Hi David,
Thanks for the new URL Shortener suggestion. Urls.tn is not the popular one as of the above-listed link shorteners.
Shortening URL is the professional way to promote your blog. You have to create some good quality content to increase click through rate.
Wonderful info. I see that your article is very well thought out and I plan on share it with my followers! Please subscribe me to your list…
The best new free URL shorteners https://sah.ooo
try this sah.ooo it also provides API and supports with and without ads similar to bitly
The best way to earn money without showing ads and annoying users.
It also provides direct access to URLs and statistics. It has nice analytics.
Do not forget to try sah.ooo just easy six letter domain woh !!!
There’s certainly a great deal to learn about this topic.
I like all of the points you’ve made.
I have used various shortened URL services, but the best place was Vivoldi (https://vvd.bz).
Thanks for the suggestion Lee.