Our favorite is YOURLS, but Lessn More is another good free option. Even when people have been to a site before, they will often try to guess or remember the site name instead of using a bookmark or history list; so an ideal domain name is short, simple, memorable and easy to spell. Use custom domain URL shortening to gain a higher level of indexing on Google. If you have a collection of URLs that you would like to share, you can create what’s called a “bundled short URL”. Alternatively, if uppercase and lowercase letters are differentiated, then each character can represent a single digit within a number of base 62 (26 + 26 + 10).
Nesbitt, Scott (7 February 2010). "Shorter Is Sweeter: A Look at URL Shorteners".How URLs Work Uniform Resource Locaters are addresses used on the World Wide Web. They can hide their nefarious links in a shortened URL meaning people either clicked on the links and quickly learned to either never trust a shortened link, or to always use a link extraction site (e.g. WhereDoesThisLinkGo) to see where the shortened link actually went before they clicked. Answers blocks postings that contain TinyURLs,[citation needed] and Wikipedia does not accept links by any URL shortening services in its articles. White labeling lets me present a positive picture of our company as clients see our agency logo when they login to create URLs.
Google's URL builder lets you manually add custom analytics parameters to a website URL. You should add this script in your page header, but not within the basic Analytics tracking code snippet.
Real time link editing means a quick edit is all it takes to instantly shift customers to a new landing page. Interestingly, that same infographic suggests that posting shortened URLs later in the week will give them a “longer lifespan”, clicking many days after it was posted. Links that users create through the URL Shortener can also open directly in your mobile applications that can handle those links. True to its name, the URL macro plug the URL of the page that the link click occurred on. Some ad campaigns may be super profitable, but the unprofitable ones eventually cause you to bleed. All you need to do is register the domain and make a few changes to the domain configuration.
Once you are set, you can now view cool stats and detailed charts of your links (e.g. unique and non-unique clicks). Starting October 12, 2010, users could automatically generate QR codes that, when scanned with a mobile QR code reader, automatically directed users to shortened links.[9] This was later removed.[10] On May 29, 2012, Bitly announced "Bitmarks", a new search feature, with enhanced public profiles and an iPhone app.[11] Alternative domains[edit] .ly is the country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Libya. Links shared on Twitter, including links shared in Direct Messages, will automatically be processed and shortened to an link. With its own URL shortener, you can ensure that your long links are kept safe and secure for your visitors. You can expect a 4 percent click-through rate (four clicks on your bit.ly link out of 100 total clicks on that blog or content link) for a well-crafted, valuable, interesting tweet. This point was underscored a few days ago when a popular one, tr.im, announced they were going to shut down at the end of the year. Did you set a link to a file instead of a page on your website? See if you are using Classic Analytics (ga.js) or Universal Analytics (analytics.js).