Google Url Shortener features

A picture, a file or a qr code … nowadays anyone shares information on Internet. This is especially true in social networks like twitter or Google Buzz where your posts has a delimited space to be writen. For example, in twitter 140 characters are available to write your text so if you want to link any address you should economize on space by using url shorteners. We find the same problematic in other modes of short form publishing (status updates, etc.) for this reason we think this kind of tool is an interesting way to manage the information we usually publish.

Google Url Shortener features

The Url Shortener has as main objective provide a tool that profit the Google’s global infrastructure to procure to users the following features:

• Settled: when you obtain a short url, nobody can modify it later.
• Everlasting: when you create your short url it will never be removed (nevertheless Google reserves the right to delate any short url in the future).
• Rapidity: you will obtain your url address in real time (few milliseconds).
• Safety: we will read a warning message if the generated url has some suspected malware aspects or spam website.

The way to use it is quite simple. You have to paste your long url in the box and make clic in Shorten. If you have signed into your Google account while you managing your urls, by looking up details tab you will obtain your qr-code and the stadistics of the generated traffic for this new url. So it allows you not only obtain your short url version but also analyze your traffic stadistics and obtain the qr-code of your short url.

• You can make your attemps in: goo.gl

If you find it very useful and you want to manage it currently we propose two options, install it like a bookmarklet (that will let you move from Firefox to Opera or Google Chrome, for example in the future) or like the popular add-ins or extensions. You will find this options available for the main extended browser. Remember, if you usually change from one browser to a new one we recomend to use bookmarklets instead of add-ins but it is just a recomendation.

• Google URL Shortener for Google Chrome.
• Google URL Shortener for Firefox.

Google Url Shortener mobile

Obviously this tool is useful for mobile browsers and mobile websites too (you will be able to shorten mobil website address as normal website address). If you want to enjoy the features of the shortener by Google in your mobile you will find many applications or extensions for your habitual browser. For example for Android mobiles.

Google Url Shortener on Google+

This useful tool can also be applied to social networking sites such as Google +. So thay you can shorten the direction of your company profile and be more easily remembered by your future clients or people who visit your site.

The following article by Sarah explained in detail this tool and its usefulness.

How to short your Url on Google plus.

Why Google Url shortener?

• This system send the correct HTTP status code and doesn’t confuse Googlebot.
• It improve the redirected content and solve problems like the 301 issue.