OneLink™ enables using a single link to diagnose and redirect users to different locations based on their devices' type. Short URLs, for example, will be subject to linkrot if the shortening service stops working; all URLs related to the service will become broken.
There are a lot of options for shortening your links, and some even provide additional services like link bookmarking and analytics on your clicks. With a premium account you can track unlimited clicks and we'll keep the data for a full 30 days.
Configure short link HTTP status codes for best SEO results. Combine methods: Use one or more of the above methods above.
Use insights from tracking reports to understand who my customers are, spot product micro trends and ratchet up results on the next campaign. For those who read their emails in a browser (like Yahoo Mail, Gmail, etc.), they would still need to have HTML turned on for it to work, and even then, the email client may restrict whether any scripts embedded in the email can execute.
Practice pasting URL You can practice copying and pasting the URL of this page by following the above steps and then pasting the URL into the below text box below. If your website has WordPress installed in a directory, your options might look like this, where our blog is installed in the “blog” directory: If your website is your WordPress installation, it might look like this: This works best when you choose a page slug that is short and mindful of keywords. Often regular unshortened links may be aesthetically unpleasing. That’s a lot of back and forth just to get me a a web page. Having a link shortener protects users from malicious sites that engage in spreading malware, phishing attacks, and other harmful activity. Google URL Shortener: This shortener is straight from Google and will be viewed as a Goo(dot)gl. When you Googling something like “Bitly alternatives” you will see so many options. One of the most popular link shorteners is Bit.ly, and their use of the .ly domain has been a problem for some. 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. Because plain-text campaigns don't use hyperlinks to hide MailChimp's tracking information, subscribers who view your plain-text campaigns will see the full tracking URLs.