Bit.ly is a simple and popular SEO Friendly URL shortening website.
Bit.ly was founded in 2008 as a Betaworks project funded by O’Reilly Alpha Tech Ventures, Social Leverage, The Accelerator Group, SoftTech VC, Ron Conway, Josh Stylman, Pete Hershberg, David Shen Ventures, Jeff Clavier, Mitch Kapor, Howard Lindzon,Chris Sacca, and Founders Fund (Dave McClure).
It allows different kinds of users to shorten, share and track long links to be used in social media websites such as twitter.
Bit.ly was registered on May 18, 2008 and has a Google PageRank of 6.
It offers URL redirection service with real-time link tracking.
It is popular in the US, UK, Germany, India, China, Australia, Canada, Brazil, South Africa and Netherlands.
