It’s also popular so a lot of people recognize that a Bitly link is a shortened link and don’t automatically think it’s spam. Try again or visit Twitter Status for more information.Expart advice Think of a domain This step takes some creativity.
The permalinks you use in WordPress can be ideally created to be as short as possible. It's also important to note that some countries only allow registrations on what's call the third level — .co.uk for example. This can be overcome by making the service a reverse proxy, or by elaborate schemes involving cookies and buffered POST bodies, but such techniques present security and scaling challenges, and are therefore not used on extranets or Internet-scale services.[original research?] Services[edit] Open source and commercial scripts are also available for redirecting and shortening links, usually written in PHP as a web application or a plugin for one of the popular applications such as Wordpress. It not only helps you learn about your visitors and popular content, but you can also use it to develop strategies to further optimize your WordPress blog.
I’ll use jQuery 1.x for this example since most sites use it but you can substitute a lightweight option such as min.js, Zepto.js, Minified.js or your own event handling functions. Twitter users are used to using URL shortener to share links of news, blogs and so on since they only have space of 140 characters to share something. We want tracking to work everywhere so I recommend using a library with robust cross-browser event handling. For example, label the company logo that shows up on each email as "logo", or the main picture in an email as "main picture". With most shortened URLs, you have no idea what website the link is really associated with.
Undo Undo URL Shortener @URL_Shorteners_ 12 Dec 2012 More Twitter vs Instagram. When clicking the link, Sailthru tracks the click and quickly redirects the user to the applicable page on your site, example.com/item/123. In general, don't remove vowels at the beginning of words, though.
Some countries place restrictions on who can register domains with its country TLD — though this is becoming less and less common as countries realize the revenue opportunities from selling domains worldwide. Example for event tracking using the newer API: Check out example.com Analytics Events Was this article helpful? If you click the shortened link on bit.ly, you get access to detailed traffic information related to number of clicks, referring Web sites, and geographic locations of the users who clicked. Techniques[edit] In URL shortening, every long URL is associated with a unique key, which is the part after its top-level domain name. The Summary tab shows all clicks on different ow.ly and ht.ly links shared over the course of seven days.