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Guest — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 04:27:25 -0000

Now a new site came up http://zxc9.com for URL shortening

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Aaron — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 11:51:07 -0000

Here's a new one I'm using these days...
http://www.snappyurl.net/
It's also got a list of the last 11 URLs created on the site (the long versions so you can't be fooled into visiting dodgy shortened ones.

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rickberrry — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 00:51:55 -0000

my vote goes to http://myurlz.com. new, simple, great features

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Super Jumbo Mortgage — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 10:59:51 -0000

For everyone with a Clicky Pro account their new Clicky.ME provides Detailed Analytics Tracking and a listing of the URL's that I have shorted for my reference.

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url360 — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 02:22:41 -0000

not forgetting this URL shortening service by url360.me

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sagar — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 04:45:38 -0000

good collections of shortening url servise. i votr for tinyurl because its very simple to use...

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gesf — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 19:11:23 -0000

There is another one: http://urlms.com

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Kara Fenton — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 11:57:37 -0000

TinyURL is the only site that I've ever used, because frankly until now it was the only site I've ever known of. Now that I see the light of my other options I'm glad to know that these other sites offer much more variety and a wider array of tracking options.

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Harold Read — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 14:44:14 -0000

Because of the advantage of tracking the activity on my cloaked links, I have been using Jonathan Legers' offto.net for all of my cloaked linking.

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andylackie — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 10:30:12 -0000

yea tinyurl all the way for me!

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Jeff Tippett — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 10:04:08 -0000

Great stuff. I've started using idek.net from @covati. His service is continuing to grow.

Jeff Tippett
@jefftippett

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Peter Hamilton — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 12:04:29 -0000

Great List Lee! Thanks!

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Yves Marie Danie — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 04:06:31 -0000

From this day forward.....I'm trying the bud & cligs fellas!

Thanks for the article! :-)

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TeasasTips — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 11:51:01 -0000

There are so many of them. I just use tiny url because its easy to remember.

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Jerry — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 21:39:08 -0000

I think your content is very helpful for the guys with one website. I have found many excellent pieces to help me market my ecomm site.

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ej — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 00:08:20 -0000

I think this is the shortest I've ever seen, though it's not too user friendly, and you have to manually strip the www to make it shorter. http://x.se/t5ju

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Phaoloo — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 08:15:38 -0000

I think is.gd could be the shortest shorten url service. I really like its bookmarklet.

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Michael — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 15:18:58 -0000

Maybe I'm missing something, but I don't see my personal favorite ow.ly on the list. That's my vote for clean and simple.

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kortina — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 09:36:47 -0000

I apologize for a mistake in the last comment. I read the table incorrectly and see that you have bit.ly listed as supporting 301. Misread the table--mea culpa!

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kortina — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 09:27:51 -0000

Hey, good summary. I would like to note that bit.ly does do 301 redirects:
$ curl -I http://bit.ly/L8mw
HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
...

The only time we do a 302 is if you use a custom URL.

Another "extra" we have that you might mention in the last column is our Firefox extension, which lets you preview page titles and full links for short urls before clicking on them. The extension is available here: http://bit.ly/bitlyFirefox

Thanks for the writeup!

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Pascal — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 01:20:59 -0000

@Kevin, yes, definitely agree. That's why I created low.cc, and for as long as I use it myself, I'll let anyone use it :) Fair?

And I'll keep tweaking it till I get it "just" right. Next is better referral stats.

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Steve — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 21:48:58 -0000

You also missed http://rde.me -- Pretty new but has all the features including a firefox add-on and the URL's are short!

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john — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 16:46:18 -0000

you missed:
http://bacn.me/

for bacon lovers

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Lee Odden — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 08:54:44 -0000

Kevin, you make a very good point. Relying on any third party for something as indefinite as link redirection is a risk. Several of the services listed above include domain name aliasing od subdomains to address this issue.

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yintercept — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 19:59:13 -0000

Sadly, any of the URL shortening services can go bad on you. They could either change their service so that it blocks PR or they might send your traffic somewhere that you don't want it to go.

I guess, if you are serious about link shortening, you should just do it yourself and make your own redirect program.