Bitly is a hassle-free tool for developing short URLs to share in location of long URLs. Ive utilized it for years to produce customized URLs that are simple for my students to type. Some individuals utilize Bitly to try to mask URLs to try to get you to click on wicked links. There is a simple method to see where a Bitly link will take you without having to in fact click on the link..
The technique is to simply add a “+” to the end of any Bitly URL. When you include the “+” the URL will redirect to Bitly instead of to whatever the initial URL was. That will then reveal you the Bitly page on which the reduced URL is hosted and will show you what the initial link was..

You can attempt this with my Bitly link of.
bit.ly/ 2ZZnuP2 which will take you to the registration page for my Practical Ed Tech Newsletter (.
https://practicaledtech.com/weekly-newsletter/). If you try the very same link but add “+” to the end of it so it reads like this.
bit.ly/ 2ZZnuP2+ you will go to the Bitly page where I reduced my initial URL.

Ive developed a couple of short video presentations of how this technique works. This is the Instagram video that I made about it. This is the YouTube video that I made about it.