Libya, for instance, exercised its control over the .ly domain in October 2010 to shut down vb.ly for violating Libyan pornography laws. Some ad campaigns may be super profitable, but the unprofitable ones eventually cause you to bleed. Bag.gy is a standard link shortener, too, with password protected link options if you want them. Understand who my readers are, which books are getting clicks and purchases and which marketing channel is working best.
They can also be maintained when a link source is moved within a computer. It doesn’t work for any URL in the world, just WP.com-hosted ones. You can use your own short URLs to point to different pages on your site.
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. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. Here's an example of an affiliate tracking link that uses both of these types of parameters: For the above tracking link, the affiliate would provide the appropriate macros from their tracking system to replace the "AFFSUB" and "SOURCE" placeholder values. The .ly namespace is controlled by Libya, you see, and the use of it is governed by strict rules. Under Tracking, click the Google Analytics link tracking box.
Other times it may be followed by a short readable name. Also, you can choose the redirect type of your link, depending on whether you plan on changing your destination URL in the future.
It depends on the amount of point of interest you need to track. Their story had a happy ending in that someone came in and saved them, but it was hard not to think of what would have happened if all their links stopped redirecting one day: part of the web would go dark. From Google Event Tracking Guide Event Tracking is a method available in the ga.js tracking code that you can use to record user interaction with website elements, such as a Flash-driven menu system. Once this is done, upload the files to your short URL hosting. You should then be able to navigate to . Put QR codes on products for our retail customers to scan. If you can't find a link here, try the Wikipedia list of TLDs. The SEO issue isn’t an issue, according to Google’s Matt Cutts. To find each combination's unique web ID, follow these steps. 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. You need to categorize each link in each email so that the information reported is useful. The nice thing about it is that it’s a short link, about 70% smaller than the permalink for this post. Once you click the share link, in addition to the social networking services you should see the URL of the video that can be copied and pasted anywhere.