On 14 August 2009 WordPress announced the wp.me URL shortener for use when referring to any WordPress.com blog post.[11] In November 2009, shortened links on bit.ly were accessed 2. Simply add one of those two services before your URL—j.mp/—and you'll quickly redirect to a page with the shortened version of your link ready to be copied or posted to a social network.
The benefit to Buffer is being able to keep your feed populated even when you’re too busy to post. buff.ly/0a0b0c0 Hootsuite: For the professional user, there’s Hootsuite. It’s one of the earliest link shorteners out there and allows you to customize the actual shortened link (again, if the customization is not yet taken). Twitter even lets you schedule Tweets now ... sort of. Note: Not all user types have access to this checkbox. Redirects A short URL is not a web page on its own. As an example, their tracking system could have a macro for ad placement that you use to replace "AFF_SUB", and another macro for traffic source that you use to replace "SOURCE".
There’s no default macro that allows you to get the anchor text of the link, so we’ll create a custom Javascript macro to easily do this. Edit short URLs or QR codes to fix broken pages any time I need it. If you have stored your links in some document, you can copy/paste from there. A circumvention could be that a website provided its own shortlinks instead of relying on a third-party shortening service – but this is not common.
Thus, short URLs may be more convenient for websites or hard copy publications (e.g. a printed magazine or a book), the latter often requiring that very long strings be broken into multiple lines (as is the case with some e-mail software or internet forums) or truncated. Shorten URL (e.g. bit.ly/buSzh) is meaningless because readers don’t know where the link is directing to.
Insert t/ on the short URL, like this: Shorten on-the-go We have an app for Firefox OS, and apps for more platforms are coming soon. 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. If it's not available, you'll need to locate a registrar who handles the domain extension in question. Maybe you want a simple URL to put in a print add, or want to be kind to mobile readers of your content. Add X-Robots-Tag to my short links for granular control over how Google makes content available through search results. Nesbitt, Scott (7 February 2010). "Shorter Is Sweeter: A Look at URL Shorteners".Welcome to TinyURL!™ Are you sick of posting URLs in emails only to have it break when sent causing the recipient to have to cut and paste it back together? You can expect a 4 percent click-through rate (four clicks on your bit.ly link out of 100 total clicks on that blog or content link) for a well-crafted, valuable, interesting tweet. Once this is on your toolbar, you'll be able to make a TinyURL at the click of a button.