Copying an address (URL) using a keyboard and mouse Highlight the address by moving your mouse cursor over the address bar and clicking the left mouse button once or press the F6 keyboard shortcut to get into the address bar. Example for event tracking using the newer API:
Links shared on Twitter, including links shared in Direct Messages, will automatically be processed and shortened to an link. 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.
Such scripts avoid many issues with shortening services, keep the domain name as part of the shortened link, and can be made private. Well, if you use an URL shortener from Google, you don't run into potential SEO (Search Engine Optimization) problems with your links. Click tracking in Sailthru is done through your link subdomain. Or you can block links to your site from these sites. For example, if you want to know how many people click on the website link in your Twitter profile, lots of people use a bit.ly link instead of the direct link to their website.
Backlinks are followed by Google's robot to check if it’s a valid link. Undo Undo Shorten URL @ShortenURL 5 Jun 2011 More Statistics for Sunday, June 5, 2011 Thanks. 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 . Since longer URLs can be so cumbersome to copy and paste without looking strange with line breaks, why should we ever use longer URLs? We recommend using a variation of your name and/or your professional brand since you'll share this URL with people so they can find your LinkedIn profile.