Business Website of the Week - bit.ly

If you’ve got long URLs that you’d really like to share, use bit.ly to shorten them first. bit.ly is a simple URL shortener that also allows you to share media files (i.e., photo or video) by uploading them to the site.

Just paste any long link into the box on bit.ly and click shorten. Better yet, sign up for a free account to get real-time statistics and a complete history for your bit.ly links, as well as set up your saved preferences.

bit.ly offers a number of tools, such as bit.ly twitter search, sidebar bookmarklet, browser extensions, a blog, and more. You can even sign up for a pro version of the service if you desire additional functionality and customization. Visit http://bit.ly/ and try it today.