Bitly

Bitly is a free utility that helps users to streamline their regular workflow. Users are able to optimize link management and track link clicks performed by website visitors.

It's estimated that Bitly team shortens over 600 million links per month for a wide variety of social networking, SMS, and email sites. Users are better able to routinely access pages through shortened URLs.

In addition to shortening URLs, Bitly can be used as a marketing and analytics tool. Users can track link clicks, see site referrals, and view the geography of link clicks.

Better yet, Bitly is a completely free service that people can use just by signing up. Using the Bitly service, users are able to customize their own URLs to make them more accessible for target clients.

Before opting for the Bitly service, users should have robust privacy settings on their internet use to avoid viruses introduced by unreliable link shortening.