But like I said, on Twitter, the Twitter folks have already figured out the whole URL shortening thing. Libya, for instance, exercised its control over the .ly domain in October 2010 to shut down vb.ly for violating Libyan pornography laws. Google URL Shortener: This shortener is straight from Google and will be viewed as a Goo(dot)gl. Simply enter your long URL and click the Shorten button.
This is available using the following redirect parameters, encoded and placed within tracking links exactly as above. redirect_ios redirect_android redirect_windows redirect_windows-phone You can use any of these in combination, further if you were to use redirect_ios= and redirect= all iOS devices would be sent to the redirect_ios location and all other devices to the common redirect= location: 5. Having a link shortener protects users from malicious sites that engage in spreading malware, phishing attacks, and other harmful activity. You’d be able to see anytime someone who got your direct mail package in the mail, actually went to your website. The links toolbar may not be visible in all setups and in most browsers, you can enable it in the View->Toolbars menu of your web browser. If you already have Google Analytics code inserted in to your WordPress blog, remove that code.
Abbreviate or shorten: Use common abbreviations to make things shorter or just chop off some letters of your name. Indeed, even typical individual can utilize this. Tinyarro.ws, and qoiob.com use Unicode characters to achieve the shortest URLs possible, since more condensed URLs are possible with a given number of characters compared to those using a standard Latin alphabet.[citation needed] Services may record inbound statistics, which may be viewed publicly by others.[5] Expiry and time-limited services[edit] Many providers of shortened URLs claim that they will "never expire" (there is always the implied small print: so long as we do not decide to discontinue this service—there is no contract to be breached by a free service, regardless of "promises"—and remain in business). TinyURL tries to disable spam-related links from redirecting.[30] ZoneAlarm, however, has warned its users: "TinyURL may be unsafe. Many web developers pass descriptive attributes in the URL to represent data hierarchies, command structures, transaction paths or session information.
Upgrade to a premium account for more advanced features. In the example above we have created a link to be shared on Twitter, as a tweet. utm_source parameter identifies the source of traffic this could be a site, a social media network, newsletter, app, etc. View Existing Tiny URL Hashes To find what existing hashed URLs point to, you can view all previously created tiny URLs by going to Offers > Tiny URLs. Click Download to export and save this list of contacts, or click each contact to view their activity for this campaign.
You’ll notice that the majority of Blinded by the Brite ticket sales occurred in the last few days. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. Use A Custom Domain With Link Shorteners With services like Domainr and IWantMyName, you can easily get a custom domain to use with link shorteners. Saving the Anchor Text with a Macro We’ll want to save the anchor text of the link. Link Tracking Features Shell shortcuts include heuristic link tracking that uses a tree search algorithm to find a match for a moved link source. Our CTID can be passed through any affiliate network using SubID tracking. You can also pass the CTID to affiliate networks with pixel tracking or postback tracking if the network supports it.