Bitly also offers a paid version, but it's pretty pricey. Some shortening services, such as goo.gl, tinyurl.com, and bit.ly can generate URLs that are human-readable, although the resulting strings are longer than those generated by a length-optimized service.
The ad tag includes the affiliate tracking link and corresponding impression pixel for display banners types so impressions can be tracked right away. Sometimes a short URL is useful simply to give someone over a telephone conversation for a one-off access or file download, and no longer needed within a couple of minutes. Then reconnect with the same interested audience when my sequel is ready to be released. It is highly recommended to enable if you are using Google Analytics on your site. The links are permanent, they will work as long as WordPress.com is around.
When you schedule a link Tweet via Hootsuite, you can shorten the link to an owl.ly link. owl.ly/0a0b0c0 Google: As always, Google has something for you too. How often do you get that kind of data from printed marketing? Whether it is the amount of clicks, the country or the referrer, the data is there.
Bitly will assign a shortened/customized URL for all the links you add to the bundle. If you already have Google Analytics code inserted in to your WordPress blog, remove that code. A search engine spider can follow links just as your browser did and is satisfied if it sees the 301 redirect method in-use. Top-level domains of countries such as Libya (.ly), Samoa (.ws), Mongolia (.mn), Malaysia (.my) and Liechtenstein (.li) have been used as well as many others. Many people use URL shorteners when they share links to private content, and in fact many web services like Google Maps have offered automatic generation of shortened links for driving directions that reveal personal information like home addresses and sensitive destinations like "clinics for specific diseases (including cancer and mental diseases), addiction treatment centers, abortion providers, correctional and juvenile detention facilities, payday and car-title lenders, gentlemen’s clubs, etc."[34][35] Additional layer of complexity[edit] Short URLs, although making it easier to access what might otherwise be a very long URL or user-space on an ISP server, add an additional layer of complexity to the process of retrieving web pages.
So if your link is as long as a giraffes neck, coupled with the rest of the tweet, you will definitely find yourself truncating the text and even break the whole thing. It’s a pain, but the outbound link tracking code shown below won’t work without it. (It could be made to work with legacy Analytics, but it’ll eventually stop working so it’s best to upgrade now.) Custom Event Tracking Analytics supports event tracking. These are all exposed in the
using rel=shortlink. Go to the homepage of the URL shortening service that you used in the first step. But like I said, on Twitter, the Twitter folks have already figured out the whole URL shortening thing. Get all the handy power of a link in a much smaller package, right? Recently bit.ly announced the addition of a premium service to its URL-tracking system. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. It’s a free platform for scheduling and managing Tweets, like Tweetdeck. We sometimes experience products selling out suddenly in the middle of a large campaign.