In your Bitly account settings, you can, among other things, create a custom short domain name for your Bitly links. To begin, you should read the section on Authentication. But otherwise, the free account is useful enough for comprehensive link tracking.
Every blog and post on WordPress.com has a WP.me URL now. You can also share files, images and videos easily with Ow.ly in all sorts of different formats. Once you have made these modifications, click on APPLY for each and then finally CREATE.
Answers blocks postings that contain TinyURLs,[citation needed] and Wikipedia does not accept links by any URL shortening services in its articles. A hyperlink or link (clickable URL) is any text, image or button that you can click-on to jump to a new website or new page on the same site. I think a few of these points are worth following up on. The downside of this approach, however, is that if a user visits your shortened domain without a directory path on the end, they will be directed to a Bitly branded page. The website is just as basic it was when it launched, but it does the deed.
But like I said, on Twitter, the Twitter folks have already figured out the whole URL shortening thing. As you shorten your links, Google will display them below with its long URL version, when it was created, its corresponding shortened goo.gl link and how many clicks it has received. The first condition allows this tag to just wait until it sees a link click event, which is the gtm.linkClick event that we were listening for above. This can break your links and disable the tracking if these are not accepted by your website. More over, all these statistics & reports come with no cost. Once you've done so, you'll be able to use the payout parameter: Warning: This setting can be prone to abuse and should only be used for internal campaigns.
This means you couldn't register, for example, domain.uk. This website has been known to distribute spyware." TinyURL countered this problem by offering an option to view a link's destination before using a shortened URL. There are a lot of options for shortening your links, and some even provide additional services like link bookmarking and analytics on your clicks. Use custom domain URL shortening to gain a higher level of indexing on Google. Advantages of Using Your Own Domain URLs: Promote your site (branding): when people retweet, your domain will fly around. WP.me is the only two-letter .me domain in the world. This is something you’ll often hear from link shortener detractors. Additional Offer URLs & Random URL If the offer has more than one URL to send traffic to, the offer's Generate Tracking panel will have an additional dropdown below the Affiliate dropdown menu. Here, you can provide an additional offer URL.