Bitly is a practical tool for producing short URLs to share in location of long URLs. Ive utilized it for several years to develop tailored URLs that are easy for my trainees to type. Sadly, some individuals use Bitly to try to mask URLs to try to get you to click nefarious links. There is a simple method to see where a Bitly link will take you without having to actually click on the link..
The technique is to merely include a “+” to the end of any Bitly URL. When you include the “+” the URL will redirect to Bitly rather of to whatever the original URL was. That will then show you the Bitly page on which the reduced URL is hosted and will show you what the original 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 attempt the exact same link however add “+” to the end of it so it checks out like this.
bit.ly/ 2ZZnuP2+ you will go to the Bitly page where I shortened my initial URL.

Ive created a couple of brief video presentations of how this trick works. This is the Instagram video that I made about it. This is the YouTube video that I made about it.