Registering a short URL[edit] Some websites create short links to make sharing links via instant messaging easier, and to make it cheaper to send them via SMS. Most URL shortening services offer basic analytic data that tracks the total number of clicks, the time of the click and the country or territory location of the person who clicked the link. The custom tracking link page enables converting a regular custom tracking link to OneLink™.
Check Enable OneLink to convert the custom tracking link to OneLink, while retaining all the added parameters to the link. As a result, many have been removed from online registries or shut down by web hosts or internet service providers. Bitly assigns a unique key, in this case UOLsVl, for the URL that you supplied, saves it in their database, and returns the shorter URL that you can then use to access the same web page. 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. Practice pasting URL You can practice copying and pasting the URL of this page by following the above steps and then pasting the URL into the text box, below.
Here’s a video tutorial on URL forwarding, and below are the two steps to setting up URL forwarding to your LinkedIn profile: 1. How do you view your shortened links in HootSuite? If your website has WordPress installed in a directory, your options might look like this, where our blog is installed in the “blog” directory: If your website is your WordPress installation, it might look like this: This works best when you choose a page slug that is short and mindful of keywords.
If you are permitting other websites to create links to your site, then you need to monitor the links to your site. URLs encoded in two-dimensional barcodes such as QR code are often shortened by a URL shortener in order to reduce the printed area of the code, or allow printing at lower density in order to improve scanning reliability.
I could probably go on and on with a dozen more URL shorteners, but lets be honest, you only need one. For example, a bad campaign name would be "Winter 2009 email" because email is the medium, and it restricts your ability to reuse the same campaign name for other mediums. More meaningful: readers at least know the link goes to your site. The real benefit of using this link shortener comes with using it in conjunction with HootSuite itself for all your social media marketing. Share Your Tracking Pages We built this feature specifically for customers who had their own clients and wanted to share their tracking data with them. They began to allow publishers to track the links they posted with analytics. Personally, I use Hootsuite for all of my Twitter’ing so I don’t have the need to go out and shorten it separately.