In this case, this is what I used: Category: Email Link Click – I manually named this, so it’s easy for me to see that this category includes any link on an email address. Although disguising of the underlying address may be desired for legitimate business or personal reasons, it is open to abuse. Your link stats will also be public if you use this service.
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). Many extensions are available from companies you already use for domain registration — such as Hover.
In 2017, Spectrum Equity acquired majority stake in Bitly for $64 million.[1] Contents Products[edit] The Bitly URL shortening service became popular on Twitter after it became the default URL shortening service on the website on May 6, 2009.[4] It was subsequently replaced by Twitter's own t.co service.[5] The company behind Bitly launched a similar service, but for online videos, to determine what videos are the most popular on the web.[6] The company offers a paid solution called Bitly Enterprise that provides advanced branding features, audience intel, omnichannel campaign tracking and more. If you need to change your URL on your social network page, it's easy to do.) Bitly Bitly is at the top of the URL shortening game. To track owned media successfully you need to create Custom Tracking Links. But if all the links to you use a shorter version, that sort of defeats the point! 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. The need for this came about when one of our Healthcare Marketing clients needed to track the actual impact their PDFs were having on their organic search volume, and traffic in general.
ClickMeter is a link tracking tool that focuses on tracking links for your website so that you can monitor relevant clicks. This count includes multiple clicks from individual recipients. Many web developers pass descriptive attributes in the URL to represent data hierarchies, command structures, transaction paths or session information. Many sites that accept user-submitted content block links, however, to certain domains in order to cut down on spam, and for this reason, known URL redirection services are often themselves added to spam blacklists.
Companies can use their own custom domains to generate shortened links; for example, The New York Times uses nyti.ms, and Pepsi uses pep.si. You can copy the resulting bit.ly link and use it in your tweets, in your e-mail, or even on your website. On smaller devices, the symbol for copying text looks like two identical pieces of paper. Linkrot[edit] The convenience offered by URL shortening also introduces potential problems, which have led to criticism of the use of these services. Then there will be links to take the viewer back to the main page. Hanselman was redirected through a convoluted path that used link shortening for analytics and tracking, and found the end result frustrating from a user standpoint.