My third choice, which was once my first choice, is Bitly. Such scripts avoid many issues with shortening services, keep the domain name as part of the shortened link, and can be made private. Another reference to URL shortening was in 2001.[8] The first notable URL shortening service, TinyURL, was launched in 2002.
Our link service measures information such as how many times a link has been clicked, which is an important quality signal in determining how relevant and interesting each Tweet is when compared to similar Tweets. 2. They hide the parameters and business logic of your ads, that is otherwise exposed to users. 3.
This example assumes that you are using the analytics.js tracking code. For example: Services Brochure In the above URL we’ve added the parameter “?pdf=Services-Brochure” to the end of the PDF URL link. Undo Undo URL Shortener @URL_Shorteners_ 20 Dec 2012 More Anonymous hackers Twitter count was suspended then reinstated. Notice we added our own custom tracking text to the parameter so we could tell this link was the “Services Brochure”. Here are some guidelines: Campaign Name This field should contain some of the most specific information about what kind of email this is. Example: link UPDATE The above is for the older version of the API - ga.js.
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). This is a nice extra feature if branding is important to you or if you want to make your link easier to memorize.
To enable it, you can upload your own SSL certificate for the link domain using the same workflow that Sailthru provides for enabling Apple’s iOS Universal Links. But we’re then moving away from on-site Analytics into more dubious territory; Google wouldn’t necessarily want to share that data. At the top of the post creation area where you are working on your draft, you can change the slug. One of the most popular link shorteners is Bit.ly, and their use of the .ly domain has been a problem for some. Once the address is copied, paste that address into another program by clicking a blank field and pressing Ctrl+V or Cmd+V. Using Link Shorteners That seems like an overpowering list of reasons to not use a link shortener, but is it? It doesn’t work for any URL in the world, just WP.com-hosted ones. Undo Undo Shorten URL @ShortenURL 24 Jun 2011 More Firefox Vision Statement Thanks.