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. Links shared on Twitter, including links shared in Direct Messages, will automatically be processed and shortened to an link.
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. Use alternate extensions "hacks": Many country code extensions can be used to help form your company name by using the characters before and after the dot to form a shortened for similar sounding version of your name. Links shared on Twitter, including links shared in Direct Messages, will automatically be processed and shortened to an link. So in the next few pages, you will learn how to shorten links for Twitter. To shorten links for Twitter, you don’t need to do too much techy stuff. It took me a while to realize all the features Bitly has to offer, and now it’s my favorite go-to page for when I need to share links with a little style. This will receive an clicked-link events as they bubble up through the DOM.
Please check with your media partners about what data is available - and if you have any questions on how to capture such data, feel free to ping support@adjust.com. On the offer page, you can add the two most common parameters, aff_sub and source, via the Generate Tracking panel.
Autotrack uses events to track outbound link clicks and sets the event label to the link's URL. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. You can use initials for one or more words or, if it works, all of them. WP.me is the only two-letter .me domain in the world. Add X-Robots-Tag to my short links for granular control over how Google makes content available through search results.
Undo Undo Shorten URL @ShortenURL 3 Jul 2011 More Statistics for Sunday, July 3, 2011 Thanks. They create unique tracking links and give you insight on how to create value out of the sharing data. It’s also popular so a lot of people recognize that a Bitly link is a shortened link and don’t automatically think it’s spam. Use custom domains to multiply click-throughs and increase the public's awareness of my brands. And getting me a web page is kind of the most important thing the web does…Every redirect is a one more point of failure, one more domain that can rot, one more server that can go down, one more layer between me and the content. Is there more than one type of Google Analytics tracking on your links? If you combine MailChimp's Google Analytics tracking with custom UTM tracking, this could skew results in reports. To view the report Overview for a campaign, follow these steps. Therefore, if a link source is moved to a FAT file system volume the tracking information is lost.