They also allow you to track your links and provide you with the ability to understand and visualise your audience. More » Goo.gl Here’s Google’s very own URL shortener, which is a popular choice that’s useful for just getting the job done as quickly as possible.
Remember: Even though you’re good at marketing your event, still, it doesn’t matter how many people you drive to your event page if only a small percentage of them buy a ticket. If a URL with missing protocol is submitted in a browser address bar the http:// is automatically assumed.
URL shorteners are nothing new, Tiny URL has been around for 100 years, but WP.me is different in a few ways. 1 billion times.[12] Around that time, bit.ly and TinyURL were the most widely used URL-shortening services.[12] One service, tr.im, stopped generating short URLs in 2009, blaming a lack of revenue-generating mechanisms to cover costs and Twitter's default use of the bit.ly shortener, and questioning whether other shortening services could be profitable from URL shortening in the longer term.[13] It resumed for a time,[14] then closed. 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. For example, let’s say that you have a page on your blog where you sell an ebook. How do you view your shortened links in HootSuite?
Don't use your company name: URL shorteners can also be formed from product names, words common to your industry, slogans or even slang. Abuse[edit] URL shortening may be utilized by spammers or for illicit internet activities. Loading....