With its own URL shortener, you can ensure that your long links are kept safe and secure for your visitors. You’ll want to choose one that uses a 301 redirect for certain.
Adding tracking directly to your site If you have added the Analytics tracking code directly to your site, you can copy and paste the script below into your own pages to set up Event tracking for outbound links. For example, if you want to know how many people click on the website link in your Twitter profile, lots of people use a bit.ly link instead of the direct link to their website. With any premium account, just select the "public tracking" option for your link and share the tracking page with your client. If you copy and paste this script exactly as it appears here, your outbound clicks will appear in your Analytics Events reports with a Category of "outbound" and an Action of "click". (In the snippet, these are shown in bold.) You can use these values, or change them and define your own values.
Upgrade to a premium account for more advanced features. 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. Any additional parameters like sub IDs or source values that have been added in this panel update the creative ad tag as well.
Join hundreds of thousands of event organisers on our platform today. Wikipedia entries on TLDs typically include information on all these restrictions in the right sidebar of each TLD's entry. Libya, for instance, exercised its control over the .ly domain in October 2010 to shut down vb.ly for violating Libyan pornography laws.
For consistency, use your URL shortener whenever possible, rather than mixing your own custom domain with other generic ones. 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. Just keep in mind that there are a couple more characters in this option as compared to others like Bit.ly, Goo.gl and Ow.ly, so it's not exactly the shortest URL shortener. Links shared on Twitter, including links shared in Direct Messages, will automatically be processed and shortened to an link. This can be done online, at the web pages of a URL shortening service; to do it in batch or on demand may require the use of an API. For example The New York Times uses “nyti.ms” for their short domain. They also allow you to track your links and provide you with the ability to understand and visualise your audience. Having a link shortener protects users from malicious sites that engage in spreading malware, phishing attacks, and other harmful activity. That reference number will be unique to that photo and it’s how Instagram knows which photo you require out of the billions they would have on their systems.