There is now a “Get Shortlink” button next to your permalink when you edit or write a post, and when you click it you’ll get a popup with the beautiful link already highlighted for your copy and pasting pleasure. Their story had a happy ending in that someone came in and saved them, but it was hard not to think of what would have happened if all their links stopped redirecting one day: part of the web would go dark. Google VS Bitly- URL Link Shorteners | 7 Key Differences Powerful Tools and Analytics Both Bitly and Google provide the analytical tools to see how well your shared link is doing online. As you shorten your links, Google will display them below with its long URL version, when it was created, its corresponding shortened goo.gl link and how many clicks it has received.
How often do you get that kind of data from printed marketing? Facebook automatically detects the link and parses the page description and an image from the original page.
Let's say that you have a website with the homepage that is at: Entering that URL into TinyURL will create a URL like With this you can then redirect someone to anywhere within your site by appending a slash and the pages filename to it. I like Bitly because it has a pretty interface and a login for all of the links you create. For example: This will redirect users to mylandingpage.com if and only if their device isn’t supported by the app store to which the tracker points. Keys can be generated in base 36, assuming 26 letters and 10 numbers.
When you are using HootSuite, you can shorten any URL to an ow.ly or ht.ly link. Keys can be generated in base 36, assuming 26 letters and 10 numbers. To view stats for your custom campaigns go to Google Analytics Reporting » Traffic » Sources » Campaigns and you will see something like this.
Head over to the Tools page and you will see instructions for adding a Bitly bookmarklet and/or browser extension to your favorite web browser. Campaign Source Campaign source for an email should not be "email". You will then need to fill in your short URL hosting and database settings, more information on the settings can be found here. Example: Nissan uses nssn.co Use initials: This tip works for personal or organization URL shorteners. Answers blocks postings that contain TinyURLs,[citation needed] and Wikipedia does not accept links by any URL shortening services in its articles. There are no real extra features or services, so this is good choice if you just want to get the job done as fast and as smoothly as possible without all the extra fluff like signing in and CAPTCHAs and other stuff. A friendly URL may be desired for messaging technologies that limit the number of characters in a message (for example SMS), for reducing the amount of typing required if the reader is copying a URL from a print source, for making it easier for a person to remember, or for the intention of a permalink.