You can also find out how many clicks your particular bit.ly link got compared to the total clicks on the long link. Does your website code allow the following external variables? utm_source= utm_campaign= utm_medium= For the sake of page security, a link is designed to fail if a query value outside of what is expected is fed in to a page. URLs encoded in two-dimensional barcodes such as QR code are often shortened by a URL shortener in order to reduce the printed area of the code, or allow printing at lower density in order to improve scanning reliability. I could probably go on and on with a dozen more URL shorteners, but lets be honest, you only need one. The only way to track clicks from your Facebook wall links is to use a URL shortening service for each external link that you post to your wall. Maybe you have the ad for your book in your sidebar, in your footer bar, and after your post content.
Practice pasting URL You can practice copying and pasting the URL of this page by following the above steps and then pasting the URL into the below text box below. Public API tny.im has a public API that allows developers to integrate this service with their websites and applications. This is a nice extra feature if branding is important to you or if you want to make your link easier to memorize. Total clicks Total number of times any tracked link was clicked.
Although disguising of the underlying address may be desired for legitimate business or personal reasons, it is open to abuse. The search algorithm is based on the last known path of the file and file information that includes the creation date, file size, and file name and extension.
WordPress links have the structure they do, which is longer, because they’re meant to be permanent and portable. (And of course friendly to search engines.) Even if you weren’t using WordPress, the links contain no arbitrary IDs or other platform-specific implementation cruft so they should be trivial to serve from any system, even if you don’t use WordPress in the future. In fact, each of Instagram’s 800 million user accounts could post one photo every single minute for about 42 and a half years before they have to worry about that limit being hit.
DyingLinks gives you control over how long you want your shortened link to be available, along with some other control and privacy features. The real benefit of using this link shortener comes with using it in conjunction with HootSuite itself for all your social media marketing. Link Tracker Keeping track of the links to a website can be quite a tedious task especially if you decide to check every link to your site. Bitly also offers a paid version, but it's pretty pricey. Undo Undo Shorten links ! @sqrl_in 19 Mar 2010 More Google moves could bring fast Web apps closer | Deep Tech - CNET News - Thanks. The shortest possible long-term URLs were generated by NanoURL from December 2009 until about 2011, associated with the top-level .to (Tonga) domain, in the form , where xxxx represents a sequence of random numbers and letters.[15] On 14 December 2009 Google announced a service called Google URL Shortener at goo.gl, which originally was only available for use through Google products (such as Google Toolbar and FeedBurner) and extensions for Google Chrome.[17] On 21 December 2009, Google introduced a YouTube URL Shortener, youtu.be.[18] From September 2010 Google URL Shortener became available via a direct interface.