Often the redirect domain name is shorter than the original one. Personally, I use Hootsuite for all of my Twitter’ing so I don’t have the need to go out and shorten it separately. This means you couldn't register, for example, domain.uk. Use Custom Short URLs in blog posts to amplify my messages and promote my personal brand at the same time. Nesbitt, Scott (7 February 2010). "Shorter Is Sweeter: A Look at URL Shorteners".Expart advice Think of a domain This step takes some creativity. This can result in URLs that are hundreds of characters long and that contain complex character patterns.
Macro Name: element text Macro Type: Custom JavaScript Custom Javascript: The .textContent property is built into most browsers which is nice, but you can always adapt the macro to use innerHTML or innerText depending on your needs. In fact, just from YouTube’s 11 characters, it can encode the numbers from one to 73,786,976,294,838,206,464 in base64. Export your data to Excel, text, PDF or XML for paid accounts. There are no real extra features or services, so this is good choice if you just want to get the job done as fast and as smoothly as possible without all the extra fluff like signing in and CAPTCHAs and other stuff. Top-level domains of countries such as Libya (.ly), Samoa (.ws), Mongolia (.mn), Malaysia (.my) and Liechtenstein (.li) have been used as well as many others.
Nowadays, the best URL shorteners accompany a full suite of analytic apparatuses with the goal that you cannot just divert clients by means of a more huge location; additionally track where your movement is originating from and what they're doing once they arrive. We will show you how you can enable automatic tracking of all outbound links in Google Analytics with WordPress. There are a lot of options for shortening your links, and some even provide additional services like link bookmarking and analytics on your clicks. The original URL produced a QR code that is too big to fit on the label so we shorten it first. Undo Undo Shorten URL @ShortenURL 22 May 2011 More Statistics for Sunday, May 22, 2011 Thanks.
Bit.ly, which is what we integrate with in CoSchedule, uses a 301 redirect. There are two rules to consider: Tracker URLs always supercede parameter values.
Links shared on Twitter, including links shared in Direct Messages, will automatically be processed and shortened to an link. Add Firing Rules: Because this tag is tracking clicks on email addresses…. we want to create firing rules that isolate links to only emails! They never place a “naked” link on any other website, especially is its an affiliate link. In the screenshot below, we used 301 forwarding which shows our LinkedIn URL in the browser. When a link domain is enabled, it is also used to serve your Hosted Pages, which will also become accessible via HTTPS after following these instructions.