Seeking Help Bitly links getting restricted — what alternatives are you using?

[shakhnazar]

Hey everyone,

Recently I started noticing more restrictions with Bitly links when running affiliate campaigns and sharing links in different platforms.

Because of that I’ve been looking into alternative short-link services that work better for marketing and traffic campaigns.

Right now I’m testing a few tools and one of them is Trastly,org, which attracted me with its (.google) domain links and seems to work quite well so far. I haven't faced any link restrictions yet.

I’m still testing different options though, so I’m curious:

What short-link services are you guys currently using for affiliate campaigns?

Looking for something reliable with clean domains and simple link generation.

 

[AutoCoin]

Same story on our end. The public shorteners are all sharing reputation scores with each other at this point — once one gets flagged by a platform, the rest follow within a few weeks. Swapping shortener to shortener is usually a short-term fix at best.
What's worked longer term is self-hosting on a domain you own. A small VPS plus an open-source shortener script gets you past the blanket-domain blocks, and you get your own redirect logs which are surprisingly useful for debugging traffic drops that used to look like offer problems.
One caveat: even a clean custom shortener domain will get flagged if you point it straight at hostile destinations on paid-social traffic. If that's the use case, the shortener isn't the actual bottleneck. Worth separating the two problems before investing a ton of time picking the "right" shortener.