SnipURL vs TinyURL
January 28th, 2009
I have been using TinyURL for quite some time – mainly when passing links to friends via Twitter and Facebook. I really liked it’s simplicity, copy the link from your browser, header over to www.tinyurl.com, paste it into the form and seconds later a shortened link appears ready to use. TinyURL also has a bookmark that can be added to your browsers bookmark bar, and when clicked it will automatically transform the URL of the page you’re on to a TinyURL. Magic, and all that I needed out of that service… until while listening to a recent episode of the Freelance Switch Radio Podcast, SnipURL was mentioned as a recommendation.
SnipURL has been around since 2001 (to my surprise) and is basically TinyURL with added bells and whistles, you can use it in the same way as TinyURL – just go to the site or use their bookmark to create shortened URL’s – but by registering and creating an account you get to manage your Snipped URL’s.
SnipURL provides you with basic statistics for each Snip you create, how many times it was clicked, and by how many unique users. This is really handy if you want to track links from blog posts or twitterings, tracking links you’ve placed on forums or comments on other blogs to your own website or blog – you can very quickly work out what’s working in terms of marketing your website – or just to see if anyone clicks on your links within a twitter post.
Try it out for yourself here; www.snipurl.com
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