The #1 Alternative to Bit.ly, Goo.gl and TinyURL

The best free alternative to is.gd URL shortener is the Flipmsg URL shortener.

It has better analytics, better link management, advanced functionalities that no other shortener has, it is secure, simple and easy to use and it allows you to customize your links in the most flexible way possible.

In this article we will compare both tools and see what are the advantages and disadvantages of both. And how they are compared to one another.

Let’s Compare Stats/Analytics

 (is.gd vs Flipmsg)

Is.gd URL shortener:

1. You can view stats without opening an account
2. Real time analytics
3. Allows you to view stats and link history
4. Allows you to see traffic based on platforms like (windows, mac etc…)
5. Allows you to see traffic based on browsers like (chrome,firefox etc…)
6. Allows you see referrers (direct,email,domain)
7. Allows you to see the geo location of your visitors.

Very good and very similar to what Flipmsg offers you.

Now let's take a look at the Flipmsg URL shortener:

1. You can view stats without opening an account
2. Real time analytics
3. Allows you to view stats and link history
4. Allows you to see referring domains
5. Allows you to see medium like direct/social media/referral
6. Allows you to see geo location (with a geographic map)
7. Allows you to see segmentation to traffic tiers
8. Gives you a quality score for your traffic
9. Allows you to detect devices like mobile/desktop/tablet 

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Manage Many Short Links Easily in One Place

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You cannot manage many short links easily with is.gd, you can’t open an account and save your links for later,  or manage them, you will need to save them to a txt file or excel spreadsheet.

With Flipmsg URL shortener, after you have opened a free account you can manage unlimited amounts of short links in one place.

In addition you can change the name of the short link as many times as you want easily, as long as it is available, you can also delete your short links unlike any other service.

With other services you are not able to delete your short links unless you pay a premium, and that's because they save your data and sell it. This is one way they make money.

The #1 Alternative to Bit.ly, Goo.gl and TinyURL

Custom Link name (slug/suffix) 

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You can customize your short link name with is.gd but it has to have a minimum of 5 characters and you can use only alphanumeric characters, which means you cannot use special characters in your custom link name.

With the Flipmsg URL shortener, you can enter a minimum of only 2 characters when you edit your custom name, you don’t have to have 5 characters.

In addition you can enter non-alphanumeric characters, you can use special characters like:

!@#$%^&*())}|{} and more...

This can help you separate words inside your custom name, and create powerful calls to actions.

The #1 Alternative to Bit.ly, Goo.gl and TinyURL

Traffic Monetization 

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With is.gd you can't monetize your traffic, you don’t earn per CPM (1,000) clicks, and you also don’t earn from affiliate commissions.

The Flipmsg URL shortener is tied to the Flipmsg Online Affiliate Business.

Which means you drop affiliate cookies on your short link visitors.

Whenever your visitors sign up for a free Flipmsg account they join your Online Business as new referrals/leads.

You accumulate referrals/leads in your online affiliate business, and you earn monthly affiliate commissions from them, from account upgrades, coins for content creators, and advertising credits.

Up to 50% affiliate commissions.

The more referrals or leads you have the more potential to earn you have.

For example:

If you have 1,000 referrals/leads in your online affiliate business. And you have only a 1% conversion rate to gold/business accounts upgrade.

These are 10 upgrades. You earn 50% commission from $39.99 (upgrade price).

This means you earn $20 per upgrade. 

$20 * 10 sales = $200.

You have just earned $200 net income from your 1,000 referrals.

You can grow your referrals virally with the Audience Builder, or with organic search traffic , by uploading high quality content to the Flipmsg Blog.

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Traffic Exchanges

(is.gd vs Flipmsg)

Because Flipmsg gives you the ability to segment your traffic by country tiers, and also gives you a quality score for your traffic, it is an excellent tool for traffic exchanges, like giveaways, and email ad swaps.

This tool will help you and your partner to track the traffic you send to each other and monitor the quality of the traffic that was sent.

This is a free to use and highly effective tool, and soon we will also add a bot filtering option to further improve the quality score metric.

You can also build your email list with ad swaps, monitor traffic quality and in the meantime generate affiliate referrals/leads for your online business.

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Email List Building

(is.gd vs Flipmsg)

Did you know that you can collect emails with The Flipmsg URL shortener and build your email list?

And you can do it in any niche.

We are soon adding the possibility to collect emails inside Flipmsg with or without an email HTML form from an email service like getresponse or aweber.

This is something that is not available with is.gd.

This means that you can redirect traffic to anywhere on the web, including your competitors blogs, (not even yours)... give your visitors content (not even yours)

And collect emails on the fly.

This is another way you can leverage your traffic , by building an email list. Something that no other URL shortener is offering you.

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Poll Links

(is.gd vs Flipmsg)

With the Flipmsg URL shortener, you can create poll links, you can create a question and redirect users based on the user answers.

You can also view stats for your poll… and this way you can segment your audience and send them to different content or offers, and build diversified and more targeted email lists.

This can help improve the quality of your email lists. And can improve the engagement you receive from your email subscribers.

This can also help you better understand your audience.

Notice - you should check if this feature is available yet.

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Exit Pages

(is.gd vs Flipmsg)

With the Flipmsg URL shortener, you can send users to pages that have exit pages, so when the user finished to consume the content, and he wants to leave the page he will be redirected to an exit page, there you can add him to your email list, or maybe try and monetize him with an offer.

Exit pages are an excellent way to monetize your traffic and build your email list, squeeze the most out of your traffic.

In addition you are dropping affiliate cookies on your visitors, so you also build a long-term asset (the online affiliate business).

Which will generate you affiliate commissions for years to come.

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Rotator(is.gd vs Flipmsg)

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With the Flipmsg URL shortener,  you can rotate your traffic based on device, country tiers, browser, medium (social,referrers,direct), domains (e.g facebook.com).

You don’t have this in other url shorteners including is.gd

Notice - you should check if this feature is available yet.

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Featured Posts

(is.gd vs Flipmsg)

With the Flipmsg URL shortener, you can send users to a blog post or any page, but it will work best with a blog post, and in the bottom of the page you have an option to include featured posts.

This blog post can also include embedded youtube video in it.

You can use these posts in various ways:

1. Maybe you want to recommend affiliate products (with your affiliate links) to your visitors after they have visited a blog post, (this blog post don’t even need to be yours or on your website)
2. Maybe you want to sell advertising in your featured posts to third party advertisers (this is allowed)
3. Maybe you want to direct users to an optin page
4. Or maybe you want to send them to sales funnels or CPA offers

The sky's the limit, you can also send them to other blog posts. Or a video. This way you can also gain subscribers in a youtube channel for example or build an email list.

Notice - you should check if this feature is available yet.

The #1 Alternative to Bit.ly, Goo.gl and TinyURL