They just want it to be short, make the bezels small or remove it completely. Undo Undo URL Shortener @URL_Shorteners_ 4 Dec 2012 More iPad users can connect with friends to count down til their favorite movie premieres! Web PR enthusiast Steve Rubel shared this tip, directly from bit.ly's management, on his personal stream site, and it's a good one. This can result in URLs that are hundreds of characters long and that contain complex character patterns.
This doesn’t change the way the PDF document is displayed or downloaded by your users. Shortening links for Twitter simply means reducing its length and at the same time, it still works correctly. Check the Enable OneLink box - the custom URL changes to OneLink Note The link is automatically multi-platform enabled. For example, .in, the TLD for India, is good for names ending in the "en" or "in" sound. .es, Spain's TLD, is good for plural names ending in "-es".
Entering unique values into aff_sub or source parameters is a common cause of sluggish reporting. Links can usually be maintained when the link source is moved to another computer, but this form of tracking is less reliable over time. Paste your "Tracking ID" from Google Analytics into the text box. More meaningful: readers at least know the link goes to your site.
The new shortened link would be like goo.gl/htsl Clicking on the shortened link immediately takes you to the same long address. Bag.gy is a standard link shortener, too, with password protected link options if you want them. With Bitly, you can track how many clicks your shortened links receive, plus bookmark and organize your links on your own personalized Bitly dashboard. Many people use URL shorteners when they share links to private content, and in fact many web services like Google Maps have offered automatic generation of shortened links for driving directions that reveal personal information like home addresses and sensitive destinations like "clinics for specific diseases (including cancer and mental diseases), addiction treatment centers, abortion providers, correctional and juvenile detention facilities, payday and car-title lenders, gentlemen’s clubs, etc."[34][35] Additional layer of complexity[edit] Short URLs, although making it easier to access what might otherwise be a very long URL or user-space on an ISP server, add an additional layer of complexity to the process of retrieving web pages. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. Backlinks are followed by Google's robot to check if it’s a valid link.
Services available include an ordinary, easy-to-say word as the URL with a lifetime from 5 minutes up to 24 hours, creation of a URL which will expire on a specified date or after a specified period, creation of a very-short-lived URL of only 5 characters for typing into a smartphone, restriction by the creator of the total number of uses of the URL, and password protection. DyingLinks gives you control over how long you want your shortened link to be available, along with some other control and privacy features. 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. Every internet user uses a search browser to surf the World Wide Web. You can also find out how many clicks your particular bit.ly link got compared to the total clicks on the long link. This can be added to existing JavaScript files or in a script block as long as it’s loaded somewhere within the HTML body (ideally, just before the closing tag). jQuery (or your alternative) must be loaded first although the Google Analytics tracking code can appear anywhere on the page. /* Track outbound links in Google Analytics */ (function($) { "use strict"; // current page host var baseURI = window.location.host; // click event on body $("body").on("click", function(e) { // abandon if link already aborted or analytics is not available if (e.isDefaultPrevented() || typeof ga !== "function") return; // abandon if no active link or link within domain var link = $(e.target).closest("a"); if (link.length != 1 || baseURI == link[0].host) return; // cancel event and record outbound link e.preventDefault(); var href = link[0].href; ga('send', { 'hitType': 'event', 'eventCategory': 'outbound', 'eventAction': 'link', 'eventLabel': href, 'hitCallback': loadPage }); // redirect after one second if recording takes too long setTimeout(loadPage, 1000); // redirect to outbound page function loadPage() { document.location = href; } }); })(jQuery); // pass another library here if required The event is recorded with the category name ‘outbound’, action name ‘link’ and the value set to the URL of the outbound page. The Google Analytics campaign title combines the MailChimp campaign title with the date and the Campaign ID. You can use it for one simple link and shorten as usual, or you can shorten a group of links into one shortened link. Conversion Tracking Try a Professional account to track sales, email signups, page visits and more with our easy to use conversion tracking option. When a visitor clicks on your tracking link, LinkTrackr places a cookie on the user’s computer, as well as generate a unique Click Tracking ID or CTID. Once the call is complete, it can run a callback function so we can redirect to the outbound page. For example, let’s say that you have a page on your blog where you sell an ebook. Google Analytics even has a URL Builder tool where you can generate a URL with UTM parameters. Please note: anyone with a t.co shortened link will be able to navigate to the destination URL. Upload the certificate and its corresponding key.