I sometimes feel like URL shorteners are some of the most understated tools in internet marketing, and there have been more than a few times that I wished I’d had someone share some advice on URL ...

The options for shortening long URL’s to a more manageable length are quickly proliferating with both Google and Facebook getting into the link shortening game. The shortened URL’s are easier to send ...

Since Twitter limits messages to 140 characters, users have quickly come to depend on “URL shorteners.” These free services take the long URLs for links that we find on the Web and shrink them to a ...

Other benefits to having your own custom short URL are things like consistent branding and increased link trust – no one likes clicking on random links, so knowing it comes from a trusted source goes ...

Google announced a new URL shortening service Goo.gl. It doesn’t replace Bit.ly and others because it only works right now with the Google Toolbar (and Feedburner) and you can’t directly access it as ...

In what we're hoping is the beginning of a trend, WordPress.com has announced a new built-in URL-shortening service for all of its hosted blogs. Now, when you create a post on your WordPress.com blog, ...

Google [GOOG] has added a new service to its ever-expanding range of online services with the launch of a URL shortening service called goo.gl. The goo.gl service is slightly different from some of ...

Tr.im, a popular URL shortening service, announced over the weekend that it is discontinuing its operations. The shutdown could mean that shortened links contained in hundreds of thousands of Twitter ...

Security researchers are seeing an uptick in the use of reverse tunnel services along with URL shorteners for large-scale phishing campaigns, making the malicious activity more difficult to stop. This ...