But as Dave Winer articulated, there’s no reason we shouldn’t have a shortener ourselves, and here we are. 🙂 People are already using it. When you schedule a link Tweet via Hootsuite, you can shorten the link to an owl.ly link. owl.ly/0a0b0c0 Google: As always, Google has something for you too. If you are permitting other websites to create links to your site, then you need to monitor the links to your site. People have learned that shortened links can lead to any random spam page on the web.
You can also create a tracking domain to “gather metrics for all users that are shortening links to your site”. They also allow you to track your links and provide you with the ability to understand and visualise your audience. 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. If the shorthand link is found to be associated with a URL, the URL is fetched, otherwise an error message is returned.[7] The patent was filed in September 2000; while the patent was issued in 2005, US patent applications are made public within 18 months of filing.
Or maybe you’re using UTM tracking tags that make your link look ugly. As an example, their tracking system could have a macro for ad placement that you use to replace "AFF_SUB", and another macro for traffic source that you use to replace "SOURCE". Have you given the reports enough time to populate? Twitter will use this to make your timeline better.
By tracking links, you can greatly improve your website by getting rid of items that don’t work and optimizing the ones that do. On other such services, using a URL shortener can allow linking to web pages which would otherwise violate this constraint. After you click on “Edit” you can change your slug to match whatever keywords (2-5 words are best) you are focusing on in the post. Launch your Web browser and go to the Web page for your preferred URL shortening service. Downloadable Reports With a Professional account, you can download your data any time for offline use. 1 billion times.[12] Around that time, bit.ly and TinyURL were the most widely used URL-shortening services.[12] One service, tr.im, stopped generating short URLs in 2009, blaming a lack of revenue-generating mechanisms to cover costs and Twitter's default use of the bit.ly shortener, and questioning whether other shortening services could be profitable from URL shortening in the longer term.[13] It resumed for a time,[14] then closed.
Undo Undo Shorten URL @ShortenURL 11 May 2011 More Statistics for Wednesday, May 11, 2011 Thanks. So if you have a page at , you can use the URL and going to this URL will forward the visitor to the page in your website. Then, along came some Google algorithm updates and the Penguin put an end to it all. Charts and Graphs Get free real-time graphs so you can clearly visualize your link activity and see where you're getting the most response. For example, the URL "" can be shortened to "", and the URL "" can be shortened to "". Some URL shorteners will redirect you to an ads page first before taking you to the real URL you supposed to redirected to. Tag Manager uses several different types of event listener tags. So you might want to enable it for a day, measure it … and turn it off if you need to.You probably want to use event tracking - this is a simple Javascript function to can fire from the click event on your links. Note: If the address bar is not visible, try scrolling up using your finger. White labeling lets me present a positive picture of our company as clients see our agency logo when they login to create URLs. Unfortunately, this URL shortener doesn’t allow you do create a custom short URL. For example, if you place a tracker on your website, then all of your users will be attributed to your mobile webpage.