After that, it’s up to you to decide what you need. You are also able to use the same tools such as bookmarklets and third-party apps using their API with your custom domain name.
Links shared on Twitter, including links shared in Direct Messages, will automatically be processed and shortened to an link. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. View Click Tracking Reports Click tracking tells you how your contacts interact with your content and whether they want to visit the destination URLs in your campaign.
Then in Google Analytics go to “Content” Then under the "Site Content" drop-down click "All Pages" And search for “pdf” to see all of the PDF's that are tagged in this way. It's usually a good idea to announce, on any of your social media services you plan to use the shortener on, that you'll be shortening links through a custom domain form now on just so users feel comfortable clicking the links.
If you are unsure whether or not your app is multi-platform, then it probably isn’t. Links to Sailthru Hosted Pages are not tracked and are not included in reporting.
These parameters are also stored by HasOffers and can be passed in affiliate conversion links via HasOffers macros. Another reference to URL shortening was in 2001.[8] The first notable URL shortening service, TinyURL, was launched in 2002. Bitly searches its database for the key UOLsVl and, if it finds that key in its database, it automatically redirects the browser to the associated web page, in this case . Here’s a video tutorial on URL forwarding, and below are the two steps to setting up URL forwarding to your LinkedIn profile: 1. Set a custom 404 URL so both search engines and visitors are sent to valid pages on my site when trying to follow any link that doesn't exist. Their story had a happy ending in that someone came in and saved them, but it was hard not to think of what would have happened if all their links stopped redirecting one day: part of the web would go dark.