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Re: 7 URL Shorteners and Why You Might Use Them

Maurice — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 19:40:12 -0000

Im playing around with smrl.tk. It uses .tk free domains to give people their own shortening service. Using a personalized url shortening service makes the shortened urls more trust-worthy imo.

Re: 7 URL Shorteners and Why You Might Use Them

Imran — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 01:06:46 -0000

co.cc and .tk are the other name shortners

imran

Re: 7 URL Shorteners and Why You Might Use Them

Rahsheen — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 18:42:47 -0000

Well, I was thinking of giving Adjix another try simply to see if it actually generates any income. Main thing for me, though...is usability. So far, bit.ly is just much easier to integrate into my work flow than anything else.

Cli.gs is probably another I may try since they do have a Ubiquity command and provide more flexibility in gathering statistics (multiple short links to the same site).

Re: 7 URL Shorteners and Why You Might Use Them

BlackAdTalk - Webmaster Forum — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 13:50:05 -0000

How do one get in contact with you?

Re: 7 URL Shorteners and Why You Might Use Them

Danny — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 12:21:40 -0000

I found notlong.com interesting because the new url is created as a subdomain

Re: 7 URL Shorteners and Why You Might Use Them

Sean Bohan — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 10:48:23 -0000

Great post and analysis - wondering which you will use now after "although I may be exploring other options after this post."

Do you have a new favorite?

Re: 7 URL Shorteners and Why You Might Use Them

Facebook User — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 09:10:30 -0000

I don't like digg as a URL shortener. It adds too much graft to the shared link.

Re: 7 URL Shorteners and Why You Might Use Them

Angela Benton — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 15:19:44 -0000

What do you all think of Digg as a URL Shortener?

Re: 7 URL Shorteners and Why You Might Use Them

ybpguide — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 14:07:06 -0000

Piggybacking off of BlackAdTalk, a counter perspective to url shorteners. I tend to lean towards the eventual misuse of them (as that is how the internet usually goes), but I guess we'll see.

Think of the abuse of Flash, pop-ups, and animated gifs by spammers now a days.

Boing Boing Article on Why URL Shorteners Suck

Re: 7 URL Shorteners and Why You Might Use Them

BlackAdTalk - Webmaster Forum — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 13:27:34 -0000

Good article you have here brother... As for TinyUrl, many ISP's (aka... email providers) now block them, as to much spamming is going on... Yes they are king, but to many black hat webmasters are using their service...

As for me, I use http://123url.us & http://shorturl.com