10 Services To Shorten Long URLs

Long URLs are always hard to remember and difficult to share. Instead of long URLs, short URLs are becoming popular these days as some services like Twitter, Facebook allow only limited characters. To share longs URLs on these sites, you have to shorten them first. So here is list of 10 Services to Shorten Long URLs.

url Long URLs are always hard to remember and difficult to share. Instead of long URLs, short URLs are becoming popular these days as some services like Twitter, Facebook allow only limited characters. To share longs URLs on these sites, you have to shorten them first. So here is list of,

10 Services to Shorten Long URLs

  1. Tiny URL : Tiny URL is easier to post on blogs or forums. Make email friendly URLs. Simplify links to your website. Hide an affiliate link. Create personal or unique addresses using a keyword. Tiny.cc turns a ridiculously long URL into a tiny URL.
  2. Burn URL : BurnURL converts a long URL in the form of . When you click on the BurnURL, it will add a “Sharebar” at the top of the page which includes convenient links to share the story on popular social networks like Twitter, Facebook, and Digg, a hit count showing how many times the link has been visited, and options to vote the story up or down and see the overall rating from visitors.
  3. ABE5 : ABE5.com is a fully-automated short URL service. Just enter your URL into the form and it will generate a shorter version of the web address. You can also create secure short URLs by choosing a password and only let through people who you give the password to.
  4. TubeURL : TubeURL gives you the best way to post on blogs or forums.
  5. tini.us : With tiny.us you can receive feedback from links that you post at different places. I post links on Twitter, a few different forums, IRC, and in other places. It’s hard to follow all of the different responses. Tiny.us will give me a page where I can read all the responses in one place.
  6. dwarfURL : dwarfURL allows you to password protect the links generated by it. You can also see the statistics for your dwarfURl means you can check how many people clicked on your link and from where they are clicked.
  7. Shrinkify : Shrinkify is a Firefox add-on that will shrink long URLs. It is very easy to use. It will automatically copy your shrinkified URL to the clipboard.
  8. DecentURL : DecentURL is a tool to not only make long URL shorter but also to make it decent. For example http://youtube.com/watch?v=pQHX-SjgQvQ will become http://youtube.decenturl.com/medieval-help-desk
  9. budurl : BudURL is more than just a url shrinking tool. You can track click information that will reveal a tremendous amount of information about the click activity of each link.
  10. SnipURL : SnipURL is another free service make shorter URLs. It will transform your longer URLs into shorter like http://snipurl.com/dd95c

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16 Comments

Gautam March 12, 2009

There is also one by OrkutPlus:
http://o-op.cn/

Yahoo Chat Blog March 12, 2009

Hey thanks for the new site..

technolizard March 12, 2009

@ Gautam

I was not aware of this site. Thanks 🙂

Bapun March 12, 2009

Thanks for the info. Cool collection.

venkat March 13, 2009

When coming to shotening URLs I know about Tinyurl ,I don’t know about other online services to shorten URLSs,thanks for letting me know about them.

Abhishek Jain March 13, 2009

Hey there are actually many more..
1) http://www.lin.cr – Very own Indian
2) http://www.url.ie
3) http://www.is.gd – I love this..
4) http://www.ur1.ca

There a lot more, but these are one I use so, share them! 🙂

Aditya March 14, 2009

Thanks for that lots of people look for those site. I think tinyurl is the leading it’s the most famous of them. I some time use that website.

Jovi Kuruvilla March 18, 2009

hi frineds.. you can also try this…
>>>>>>>>>> http://www.co.nr

technolizard March 18, 2009

@ Jovi Kuruvilla

Thanks dude !! There are lots more websites like this

Yazal April 21, 2009

There are indeed many more. Been using http://elURL.com for a while lately.

Thanks for the list, Singh!

Fred September 1, 2009

http://yaus.eu

Stupid simple url shortener, readable url (no numbers, no upper-lower case)
* Preview (with a ‘!’ at the end of url)
* Fast

Eze October 19, 2009

Another great shortener is Sexy URL – http://sl.ly

royal March 28, 2010

Another one, LNKS.iT, http://lnks.it from CodeIgniter.com! Open Source URL shortening AND bookmarking site. This allows you to sort your URLs. IMHO, this is simplier than delicious bookmarking site…

thanos September 1, 2010

excellent stuff man…very usefull for a full time blogger like myself….keep it coming bro…cheers