Services available include an ordinary, easy-to-say word as the URL with a lifetime from 5 minutes up to 24 hours, creation of a URL which will expire on a specified date or after a specified period, creation of a very-short-lived URL of only 5 characters for typing into a smartphone, restriction by the creator of the total number of uses of the URL, and password protection. Thus, short URLs may be more convenient for websites or hard copy publications (e.g. a printed magazine or a book), the latter often requiring that very long strings be broken into multiple lines (as is the case with some e-mail software or internet forums) or truncated. Bitly assigns a unique key, in this case UOLsVl, for the URL that you supplied, saves it in their database, and returns the shorter URL that you can then use to access the same web page. This action makes it more convenient for your visitors to read and makes the addresses more suitable to share on Twitter.
Using it for spamming or illegal purposes is forbidden and any such use will result in the TinyURL being disabled and you may be reported to all ISPs involved and to the proper governmental agencies. If you want a more granular approach too, use the "Just-Discovered" tab to see brand new links that are pointing to your PDF. Note: If the address bar is not visible, try scrolling up using your finger. In other words, if you can discover which half of your advertising isn’t working, you can focus only on the half that is working, you can literally double your profits. Undo Undo URL Shortener @URL_Shorteners_ 14 Dec 2012 More Thanks. If you can't find a link here, try the Wikipedia list of TLDs.
Similarly, if you assign traffic to a certain campaign but with an unknown adgroup, and later on add adgroup attributions, the traffic up until then will be shown as unknown. Did you set a link to a file instead of a page on your website?
The values for each entry are the same as specified in the Analytics section. The service includes all the custom bit.ly features plus real-time information about the page you are “shrinking.” You can also track clicks to the page and how many times that page was shared and by how many people.
On 14 August 2009 WordPress announced the wp.me URL shortener for use when referring to any WordPress.com blog post.[11] In November 2009, shortened links on bit.ly were accessed 2. The links toolbar may not be visible in all setups and in most browsers, you can enable it in the View->Toolbars menu of your web browser. Affiliate Click ID & Unique Values Click IDs and other unique values (like user hashes and programmatic API values) often reference individual clicks or sessions in other tracking systems. With any premium account, you get complete control over lots of configurable options, all in one place. Google Analytics even has a URL Builder tool where you can generate a URL with UTM parameters. You’d be able to see anytime someone who got your direct mail package in the mail, actually went to your website. Transnational law[edit] Shortened internet links typically use foreign country domain names, and are therefore under the jurisdiction of that nation. Click the copy icon to copy the link to the clipboard. TinyURL: This shortener use to be all over the internet; however, lately it has died down.