Undo Undo URL Shortener @URL_Shorteners_ 5 Dec 2012 More Have you voted on changes? You may still want to track your URLs to see how well your tweets are performing.
This ensures there’s enough time to track the click. A shorthand link is associated with the registered URL.
Here are just a few that seem to be popular: Bitly: TinyURL.com: Goo.gl: To find more options, just type “url shortening” or “url shortening services” into your favorite search engine. As they say, barriers can boost creativity, so people have learned to be pretty witty with 280 characters, even inventing hashtags to make the whole process easier. You can use it for one simple link and shorten as usual, or you can shorten a group of links into one shortened link. WordPress links have the structure they do, which is longer, because they’re meant to be permanent and portable. (And of course friendly to search engines.) Even if you weren’t using WordPress, the links contain no arbitrary IDs or other platform-specific implementation cruft so they should be trivial to serve from any system, even if you don’t use WordPress in the future. Replace: Consider using letters or numbers in place of words. This can be overcome by making the service a reverse proxy, or by elaborate schemes involving cookies and buffered POST bodies, but such techniques present security and scaling challenges, and are therefore not used on extranets or Internet-scale services.[original research?] Services[edit] Open source and commercial scripts are also available for redirecting and shortening links, usually written in PHP as a web application or a plugin for one of the popular applications such as Wordpress.
Replace: Consider using letters or numbers in place of words. Use short links with Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) Beacons for asset tracking and proximity marketing. For consistency, use your URL shortener whenever possible, rather than mixing your own custom domain with other generic ones. Campaign Source Campaign source for an email should not be "email".
Along with being user-friendly, it is also easy to integrate bitly with other services like android, iOS and web browsers. Upgrade my links by putting my name in a custom domain and sharing with friends, family and on social media. Techniques[edit] In URL shortening, every long URL is associated with a unique key, which is the part after its top-level domain name. Authorizing requests and identifying your application Every request your application sends to the Google URL Shortener API needs to identify your application to Google. Free users can choose between “go.clickmeter.com“ or “9nl.com“ as a domain name for their tracking link, while pro users can choose their own domain name. They are also my favorite in the space, because they allow for you to customize your bitlinks to have any ending you choose. To view the outgoing links, go to your Google Analytics account.