Use an online search tool: One great tool for coming up with good domains for URL shorteners is Domai.nr, which lets you type in a full company name and the site suggests variations of it using numerous alternate extensions and other methods mentioned here and even links you to where you can purchase the domains (this is especially handy for country TLDs). Professional account holders can set an alert threshold and receive a single email notification when their link reaches a certain number of clicks. Registering a short URL[edit] Some websites create short links to make sharing links via instant messaging easier, and to make it cheaper to send them via SMS.
With that said, if you do need to track your URLs, or you want alternative ways to post there are plenty of ways to do it: Bit.ly: Probably the most popular URL shortener for Twitter because it was one of the first to let you track your tiny URLs. If you're willing to pay, consider Pretty Link Pro or these low cost solutions on Code Canyon. Tracking Visits from Emails Tracking visitors that come from emails is simple enough if you use campaign tracking for each link.
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You may still want to track your URLs to see how well your tweets are performing. This means you couldn't register, for example, domain.uk. Example: link UPDATE The above is for the older version of the API - ga.js.
A Microsoft Security Brief recommends the creation of short-lived URLs, but for reasons explicitly of security rather than convenience.[6] History[edit] An early reference is US Patent 6957224, which describes ...a system, method and computer program product for providing links to remotely located information in a network of remotely connected computers. Libya, for instance, exercised its control over the .ly domain in October 2010 to shut down vb.ly for violating Libyan pornography laws. With a premium account you can track unlimited clicks and we'll keep the data for a full 30 days. A circumvention could be that a website provided its own shortlinks instead of relying on a third-party shortening service – but this is not common. It will track the links, but you will still need to use the 'Link Tracker' utility provided by smallseotools.com to examine the links and verify them. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. A link shortening service is a middleman, serving up a link that sits between your user and the end result. Bitly also offers a paid version, but it's pretty pricey. Examples: Netflix at one time used movi.es and BarkBox, which supplies dog treat gift packages, use the URL shortener ruv.me.