If the shorthand link is found to be associated with a URL, the URL is fetched, otherwise an error message is returned.[7] The patent was filed in September 2000; while the patent was issued in 2005, US patent applications are made public within 18 months of filing. WordPress links have the structure they do, which is longer, because they’re meant to be permanent and portable. (And of course friendly to search engines.) Even if you weren’t using WordPress, the links contain no arbitrary IDs or other platform-specific implementation cruft so they should be trivial to serve from any system, even if you don’t use WordPress in the future. Bitly also offers a paid version, but it's pretty pricey. Use custom domains to multiply click-throughs and increase the public's awareness of my brands. Undo Undo Shorten URL @ShortenURL 20 May 2011 More Revision 361: Increased max-version Thanks.
They are also my favorite in the space, because they allow for you to customize your bitlinks to have any ending you choose. Charts and Graphs Get free real-time graphs so you can clearly visualize your link activity and see where you're getting the most response. What Link Shorteners Do (And Don’t Do) Link shorteners were originally created to address stubborn email systems that wrapped an email after 80 characters and broke any long URLs that might have been in the message.
It gives us profound insights about the media battle through social sites. The disconnection of the server caused us serious problems, and to be honest, the level and nature of the abuse has become quite demoralizing.
Let's say that you have a website with the homepage that is at: Entering that URL into TinyURL will create a URL like With this you can then redirect someone to anywhere within your site by appending a slash and the pages filename to it. You cant just go there and type how your day went and expect Twitter to accept that. It provides statistics on clicks and shares, creates QR Codes automatically, enables Image Recognition (just upload images to link to your URL), it supports iBeacons, and you can specify mobile deep links, etc.
See the URL list method in the Reference document for more details. Troubleshooting Consider these possibilities if you see behavior you don't expect. Undo Undo Shorten URL @ShortenURL 18 May 2011 More Revision 357: Removed: piurl.com, tr.im, kl.am; Added: min.ms, mrte.ch, v.gd; Thanks. Use remarketing links to repeatedly get my brands in front of interested eyeballs. Before you move on, let me let you know that twitter blocks a lot of link shortening services and has since flag them negatively. Add retargeting pixels in short links to track interest in specific products and maximize advertisement ROI. Object Identifiers The link tracking service maintains its link to an object by using an object identifier (ID). If the user approves, then Google gives your application a short-lived access token. If you have a link domain enabled, wait to enable HSTS until after you have uploaded this certificate for your link domain. All best affiliate gurus spend a big fortune creating, designing and improving their online marketing system to get an unfair advantage over everyone else. A friendly URL may be desired for messaging technologies that limit the number of characters in a message (for example SMS), for reducing the amount of typing required if the reader is copying a URL from a print source, for making it easier for a person to remember, or for the intention of a permalink. Many web developers pass descriptive attributes in the URL to represent data hierarchies, command structures, transaction paths or session information. If hosted elsewhere, in the ‘URL to the YOURLS API’ field enter ‘’.