Bag.gy is a standard link shortener, too, with password protected link options if you want them. You need an Admin user level or higher to connect this integration. If you’re logged in you can also get the shortlink for any page on WordPress.com, there’s a link under the “Blog Info” menu in your admin bar.
A circumvention could be that a website provided its own shortlinks instead of relying on a third-party shortening service – but this is not common. Another reference to URL shortening was in 2001.[8] The first notable URL shortening service, TinyURL, was launched in 2002. The links toolbar may not be visible in all setups and in most browsers, you can enable it in the View->Toolbars menu of your web browser. Here’s an article that will show you how to shorten links for Twitter. Then there will be links to take the viewer back to the main page. Users can create these short links through the web interface at goo.gl, or they can programatically create them through the URL Shortener API.
In this article: Using Google Tag Manager If you use Google Tag Manager to manage your Analytics tracking, follow the instructions in Analytics Events to implement events. Bitly may be the authoritative champ of URL shorteners in the Twitterverse (before t.co / Twitter was propelled a year ago), however Redirecting has analytics covered. Maybe you have the ad for your book in your sidebar, in your footer bar, and after your post content. It works almost immediately and you can shorten as much as you want, anytime. In this article, you will learn how to control, review, and interpret click tracking.
HasOffers stores the value of ad_id as the transaction ID for the session. A shorthand link is associated with the registered URL. In addition to using bit.ly as a tool integrated into third-party tools you can also use it directly at the bit.ly website.
Keys can be generated in base 36, assuming 26 letters and 10 numbers. The links are permanent, they will work as long as WordPress.com is around. Add X-Robots-Tag to my short links for granular control over how Google makes content available through search results. This will receive an clicked-link events as they bubble up through the DOM. This results in registration of different URL shorteners with a myriad of different countries, leaving no relation between the country where the domain has been registered and the URL shortener itself or the shortened links. Contents Purposes[edit] There are several reasons to use URL shortening. For consistency, use your URL shortener whenever possible, rather than mixing your own custom domain with other generic ones. For example, if the user clicks on “sales@wearefine.com”, that’s what Google Analytics will record. Typically, it’s used for recording on-page JavaScript-controlled interactivity such as opening a widget or making an Ajax call. And http:// www.tiny.cc is not a required format because the tiny.cc site happens to be configured without a subdomain (www. was made optional). is shorter and boiled down to only the required parts that make a URL functional: protocol + domain + top level domain (http:// + tiny + .cc). The customized bit.ly version allows you to use your own domain name for branded short links which can be easily shared on Twitter, Facebook or other social media sites. Maybe you want a simple URL to put in a print add, or want to be kind to mobile readers of your content.