There are no real extra features or services, so this is good choice if you just want to get the job done as fast and as smoothly as possible without all the extra fluff like signing in and CAPTCHAs and other stuff. Note: Not all website UTM parameters work properly with Google Analytics. If you choose to edit the default title, make sure you don't include any special characters. Whatever URL shortening service you use, you should probably read through their help to determine whether they also make their links permanent.
See also[edit] [edit] External links[edit] URL redirection and shortening at Curlie (based on DMOZ) Comparison of URL Shortening Services, SearchEngineLand. Privacy and security[edit] A short URL obscures the target address and can be used to redirect to an unexpected site. When using tiny URL, the link must be less than 500 characters or the destination will be cut off. On the offer page, you can add the two most common parameters, aff_sub and source, via the Generate Tracking panel.
Shortcomings[edit] Short URLs often circumvent the intended use of top-level domains for indicating the country of origin; domain registration in many countries requires proof of physical presence within that country, although a redirected URL has no such guarantee. The downside of this approach, however, is that if a user visits your shortened domain without a directory path on the end, they will be directed to a Bitly branded page. Undo Undo Shorten URL @ShortenURL 12 Jun 2011 More Statistics for Sunday, June 12, 2011 Thanks. Finally, URL shortening sites provide detailed information on the clicks a link receives, which can be simpler than setting up an equally powerful server-side analytics engine, and unlike the latter, does not require any access to the server. When you are using HootSuite, you can shorten any URL to an ow.ly or ht.ly link.
Add Tracking to Email Campaign Archives and Pages To add Google Analytics tracking to your email campaign archives and pages, follow these steps. This will receive an clicked-link events as they bubble up through the DOM. Google's URL builder lets you manually add custom analytics parameters to a website URL. Bitly searches its database for the key UOLsVl and, if it finds that key in its database, it automatically redirects the browser to the associated web page, in this case . If the URL you want isn't available, please select a different one.
Why would a fashion magazine's site permit a pet training site to create a link to it? Additional information See the copy, hyperlink, paste, and URL definitions for further information.Welcome to TinyURL!™ Are you sick of posting URLs in emails only to have it break when sent causing the recipient to have to cut and paste it back together? You can even make each link in the list a tny.im short link, for enhanced statistics! You can read more about this in our guide to deeplinking. I could probably go on and on with a dozen more URL shorteners, but lets be honest, you only need one. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. As you can see from the pie charts below, most Demos & Tools users are on large screens, at regular resolution, in landscape mode: The tables below outline how each of the media query values are defined: Breakpoints Resolution Orientation For more information on how to configure media query tracking for your site, refer to the mediaQueryTracker configuration section of the autotrack documentation. Before Bitly (and even Twitter), there has been a URL shortener, it was TinyURL. But when creating links in html you can't get away with dropping the protocol. That’s its unique identifying number, just as 9,998,383,750,001 would be the number used to identify which person was waiting after Beetlejuice.URL shortening is a technique on the World Wide Web in which a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) may be made substantially shorter and still direct to the required page.