Organize all my important digital resources with easy to remember, keyword-rich short links. Personally, I use Hootsuite for all of my Twitter’ing so I don’t have the need to go out and shorten it separately.
It's also important to note that some countries only allow registrations on what's call the third level — .co.uk for example. Registering a short URL[edit] Some websites create short links to make sharing links via instant messaging easier, and to make it cheaper to send them via SMS.
Please see Google’s help page on Custom Campaigns for more information. Bit.ly, which is what we integrate with in CoSchedule, uses a 301 redirect. 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. Don't use your company name: URL shorteners can also be formed from product names, words common to your industry, slogans or even slang. Fortunately, we can gather outbound link details ourselves. Create a single responsive short link to direct readers and split into two targets based on their operating system (e.g.
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. If you change your mind, you want your structure to adapt.
When used this way, all user activity on such elements is calculated and displayed as Events in the Analytics reporting interface. Here's an example of a URL that can be set as the custom click macro for an offer: {redirect} On click, the {redirect} macro in the above URL is replaced with the HasOffers tracking link for the offer: Custom Transaction IDs Before using the parameter for custom transaction ID, contact your account manager or our support team to enable the feature for your network. With the URL Shortener API you can write applications that use simple HTTP methods to create, inspect, and manage goo.gl short links from desktop, mobile, or web. Use alternate extensions "hacks": Many country code extensions can be used to help form your company name by using the characters before and after the dot to form a shortened for similar sounding version of your name. In this case, each character in the sequence will be 0, 1, 2, ..., 9, a, b, c, ..., y, z. After you click on “Edit” you can change your slug to match whatever keywords (2-5 words are best) you are focusing on in the post. Once you are sure that your WordPress site does not have Google Analytics code, go to Settings » Google Analytics. Undo Undo URL Shortener @URL_Shorteners_ 4 Dec 2012 More Check us out on , too! Instead, they create a “tracking link” that will act as a redirect to the actual landing page or website URL. Then, along came some Google algorithm updates and the Penguin put an end to it all. When someone clicks on the link, they will be taken to your Bitly page where all the links can be accessed. Short.cm has integration with many statistics services (like google analytics and mixpanel) through segment.io API. You can copy the resulting bit.ly link and use it in your tweets, in your e-mail, or even on your website.