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Which URL Shortening service is the best one?

URL shortening is a technique on the World Wide Web in which a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) may be made substantially shorter in length and still direct to the required page. When a URL is shortened, insights can be retrieved (Number of clicks, shares...etc.) Which one is the best one in your opinion?

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Question added by George Durzi , Senior Media Performance Manager - Middle East & Africa , Dyson
Date Posted: 2012/11/25

Since I use Hootsuite for social media and they already provide ow.ly shortening tool..
I prefer to use it.
However outside of social media..
I sometimes use goo.gl

Abdelaziz Mohammed
by Abdelaziz Mohammed , Cofounder - Head of Marketing , D360 Bank

Hello Dear kindly check http://bit.ly http://goo.gl but i prefer http://bit.ly

Amit Amberker
by Amit Amberker , Looking for Creative Designing Projects which needs to be Done on Photoshop, Illustrator, CorelDRAW , Freelancer and Self Employed

Hello George Durzi, On what basis did I earn -1? Just curious to know so that I could be more careful next time while answering to questions.

George Durzi
by George Durzi , Senior Media Performance Manager - Middle East & Africa , Dyson

The -1 was not from me Amit.
Thank you all for your great answers!

I preffer bit.ly since it allows you to use custom short domains if own one, for free. Also, the analytics and information that you get from it is pretty valuable. Tags and comments are also a very useful feature for organizing your links, especially when you have hundreds of links

Marina Abaza
by Marina Abaza , Project Assistant (Case Management) , International Organisation

The best URL shorteners right now seem to be http://bit.ly , http://goo.gl and http://dyi.li

Saad Khan
by Saad Khan , Business Development , Freelance

I personally use Google (like always!) and recommend it to others as well! No need to sign-up separately if you are already signed-in with your Gmail account and it give you all time insights for Clicks, Referrers, Browsers, Countries, etc! http://goo.gl

Amit Amberker
by Amit Amberker , Looking for Creative Designing Projects which needs to be Done on Photoshop, Illustrator, CorelDRAW , Freelancer and Self Employed

Hello George Durzi, Couple of times I have used - https://bitly.com/

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