Top 11 Free URL Shortening Services

June 10th, 2009 | by admin |

Huge and lengthy URLs are always a headache as they are difficult to remember and share with your relatives and friends.Free URL Shortening Services are always good to cut down lengthy URLs.These URL Shortening Services will provide you with a small link that will redirect to that lengthy URLs which is difficult to remember.

Using these free URL Shortening Services is not a rocket science.What you need to do is to just open up the website of any free URL Shortening Service and then copy the lengthy URL you wanna cut down in to URL Shortening Service website and then you will be given with a small link which you can share with anyone.

If you try to find free URL Shortening Services on internet you will be greeted with tons of URL Shortening Services but it is always difficult to find which one is reliable.I have compiled a list of Top 12 Free URL Shortening Services that will do URL shortening for you.

1) TinyURL

Are you sick of posting URLs in emails only to have it break when sent causing the recipient to have to cut and paste it back together? Then you’ve come to the right place. By entering in a URL in the text field below, we will create a tiny URL that will not break in email postings and never expires.

An example

Turn this URL:

http://rover.ebay.com/rover/1/711-53200-19255-0/1?t

ype=3&campid=5336224516&toolid=10001&customid=tiny-
hp&ext=unicycle&satitle=unicycle

into this tinyURL:

http://tinyurl.com/unicycles

2) Bit.ly

bit.ly allows users to shorten, share, and track links (URLs). Reducing the URL length makes sharing easier. bit.ly can be accessed through our website, bookmarklets and a robust and open API.

3) Metamark

Free Short URL redirection service. Make a long URL short with this service.

4) ZipMyURL

Cut those annoying long web addresses down to size! just paste or type in the URL(s) you want to compress.

5) Is.gd

s.gd is a service that shortens URLs such as web addresses. This is useful in many circumstances (see below) e.g. in email clients that break long URLs.

6) zURL.ws

Welcome to zURL.ws! We provide a free URL shortening service, to make your long URLs short.

7) URLms

Urlms stands for “URL Made Simple” and it is a free service that provide users a way to convert long website URL’s into short and easy to remember ones that can be used and accessed world wide. This is useful when you need to embed urls into i.e: Twitter or SMS. Users can redirect (point) this short URL to any existing website or address and access it, no matter where it is actually located/hosted.

SnURL

SnipURL is a free service to make it easier to deal with long URLs. SnipURL is not responsible for the nature of URLs that are “snipped” using SnipURL, and we reserve the right to disable any URL that we suspect is a misuse of our services

9) Cli.gs

Only on Cligs – no other service does this! – you can provide alternative destinations URLs that different visitors from different countries are forwarded to.

10) W3T

Even better news: this short URL service is free to use and you don’t have to register to use all of it’s functionality (except URLs editing).

11) NotLong

If you have a long URL which has problems wrapping in email messages or in chat rooms or is impossible to read over the phone, then copy and paste it above and this service will make a shorter link which will use redirection to send users to the longer URL.

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