Once you click the share link, in addition to the social networking services you should see the URL of the video that can be copied and pasted anywhere. Some URL shortening services support the forwarding of mailto URLs, as an alternative to address munging, to avoid unwanted harvest by web crawlers or bots. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. Have you given the reports enough time to populate?
For example, say you are using UTM codes to track website traffic. Undo Undo Shorten URL @ShortenURL 17 Jul 2011 More Statistics for Sunday, July 17, 2011 Thanks. Create a branded experience across your online marketing channels, including social media, email, business cards, and your website.A domain name can be more than just the home of your awesome website, but a way to brand yourself online. In April 2009, TinyURL was reported to be blocked in Saudi Arabia.[27] Yahoo!
Undo Undo Shorten URL @ShortenURL 24 Jun 2011 More Firefox Vision Statement Thanks. Doing so generates a tracking link unique to that publisher and offer: What is generated looks something like this: Each part of the affiliate tracking link helps our ad server determine what to do with the traffic when a user follows the link: demo.go2cloud.org - This is the tracking domain of your network, using the provided go2cloud.org domain. aff_c - This part after the domain tells the ad server that this user is clicking through, as opposed to a conversion or impression. offer_id=1001 - In HasOffers, each offer is given an ID number, which is used to connect the click session to the rest of an offer's information. aff_id=2002 - The affiliate ID tells HasOffers which publisher receives credit for the click and the conversion (if the user converts). You can also create a tracking domain to “gather metrics for all users that are shortening links to your site”. Here are 5 URL Shorteners that I actively use: Bitly: This website allows you to create an unlimited amount of bitlinks, which come with analytics and tracking. While your link is legitimate, the link shortening service you’re using could cause it to be blocked. Many URL-shortener services offer the option to track how many clicks each link gets.
The shortest possible long-term URLs were generated by NanoURL from December 2009 until about 2011, associated with the top-level .to (Tonga) domain, in the form , where xxxx represents a sequence of random numbers and letters.[15] On 14 December 2009 Google announced a service called Google URL Shortener at goo.gl, which originally was only available for use through Google products (such as Google Toolbar and FeedBurner) and extensions for Google Chrome.[17] On 21 December 2009, Google introduced a YouTube URL Shortener, youtu.be.[18] From September 2010 Google URL Shortener became available via a direct interface. In general, don't remove vowels at the beginning of words, though.
Undo Undo Shorten URL @ShortenURL 29 May 2011 More Statistics for Sunday, May 29, 2011 Thanks. However, you or your publisher may want to use additional parameters to store information. The more clicks you get on your AdF.ly links, the more money you earn. However, copy operations do not preserve object IDs, because that would violate their uniqueness. Other URL shortening services provide a similar destination display.[32] Security professionals suggest that users check a short URL's destination before accessing it[citation needed], following an instance where shortening service cli.gs was compromised, exposing millions of users to security uncertainties.[33] There are several web applications that can display the destination URL of a shortened URL.[citation needed] Some URL shortening services filter their links through bad-site screening services such as Google Safe Browsing. Or you can block links to your site from these sites. Links to Sailthru Hosted Pages are not tracked and are not included in reporting. As a result, long URLs must be copied-and-pasted for reliability. Sometimes a short URL is useful simply to give someone over a telephone conversation for a one-off access or file download, and no longer needed within a couple of minutes. The boxes in the screenshot below should be empty. It is a legitimate concern that many existing URL shortening services may not have a sustainable business model in the long term.[12] In late 2009, the Internet Archive started the "301 Works" projects,[25] together with twenty collaborating companies (initially), whose short URLs will be preserved by the project.[12] The URL shortening service ur1.ca provides its entire database as a file download, so if its website stops working, other websites may be able to provide ways to correct broken links to URLs shortened with its service.