Many times while you are online you might encounter shortened links that supposedly lead to an alleged location/web site, so how to make sure that you are really heading in the right direction instead of falling in a trap of someone who wants to lead you to a malicious site that might harm your computer by viruses, trojans and whatnot.

so what you need to do is to check where this link leads to before clicking, which can be done easily by going to this website:

URLXRAY

then simply copy the shortened link you have to the entry field of that website and click on 'X-ray', this will then show you the link where that shortened link leads to.

One of the good things about this website is that it supports almost all shortened links from any link shortener, so its a one place for all the short links providers.

Always stay safe online!