url shorteners

Hey guys! I want to use URL shorteners as a place to promote my blog. The rates of some URL shorteners seem pretty low to me. However, I have several concerns: Is traffic from URL shorteners real? I do not want Google to penalize me. <-- This is my main concern The URL shortener I want to use...

Hey! Has anyone used any of the bots for shortlinks? Have they worked or those kinds of things never work and are bs? Best wishes!

Before 2 days I was analysing a page in MOZ OSE and I surprised that a page has many 301 redirected URL shortened backlinks with almost PA-46 then I analysed many other pages of the domain and some another big SEO experts page and they are also having the same myth. Now I am very confused that...

Can someone show me a thread, an article, a guide or something, to learn how to use URL Shorteners for my projects?