They are also my favorite in the space, because they allow for you to customize your bitlinks to have any ending you choose. Want to take your link tracking to the next level?
With a Professional account, you can use any of our alternative domain names for your tracking links. This delay can be made worse if the account is set up close to the weekend because sometimes data aggregation slows and gets pulled in on Monday. Let's say that you have a website with the homepage that is at: Entering that URL into TinyURL will create a URL like With this you can then redirect someone to anywhere within your site by appending a slash and the pages filename to it. My third choice, which was once my first choice, is Bitly.
One good way to do this is to use Domai.nr, which links directly to registrars for many domain extensions. That fact makes it easy to use only, in online profiles and anywhere else that you want to put a link and track it. Don't use your company name: URL shorteners can also be formed from product names, words common to your industry, slogans or even slang.
But otherwise, the free account is useful enough for comprehensive link tracking. We can use event tracking to record outbound links but there are a number hurdles to overcome: the event must be recorded on all browsers and not impede navigation we should not need to manually identify or attach separate handlers to every outbound link, and we must ensure the event is recorded before the outbound page starts to load.
The secret to high click-through rates involves some of the principles that apply to search engine optimization: Write a descriptive and catchy headline that’s relevant to most of your followers and have a network of people who are truly interested in hearing from you. You may still want to track your URLs to see how well your tweets are performing. Answer that, and your online profits will explode. We sometimes experience products selling out suddenly in the middle of a large campaign. A real-time dashboard with traffic analytics and referrer data shows how many people shared and clicked your links. bit.ly is a free service. Also, remember that many services provide 14 day free trial so you can check if it fits your needs before spending any money. The associated shorthand link and URL are logged in a registry database. Get Click Alert Emails With any premium account you can get real-time click alert emails every time your link is clicked! Set your own link expiration dates (great for limited time offers). TweetDeck and Seesmic (TweetDeck’s direct competitor) both offer numerous URL-shortener options (bit.ly, is.gd, TinyURL, and twURL), but only bit.ly offers click tracking. Many sites that accept user-submitted content block links, however, to certain domains in order to cut down on spam, and for this reason, known URL redirection services are often themselves added to spam blacklists. At the top of the post creation area where you are working on your draft, you can change the slug. And a status code is one piece of information exchanged through a header. The .ly namespace is controlled by Libya, you see, and the use of it is governed by strict rules.