It's only one of the most popular social media management tools currently out there! For example, .in, the TLD for India, is good for names ending in the "en" or "in" sound. .es, Spain's TLD, is good for plural names ending in "-es". There are security implications, and obsolete short URLs remain in existence and may be circulated long after they cease to point to a relevant or even extant destination. Our favorite is YOURLS, but Lessn More is another good free option.
You'll typically find the unsubscribe link in the footer. Often the redirect domain name is shorter than the original one. To ensure proper tracking, use direct links to pages where Google Analytics code is embedded. This will allow you to plan your content strategy accordingly. With a custom domain for your link shortener, people will see that you are not spamming and they will be more likely to click on your custom domain shortened link than a generic shortened link. Don't use your company name: URL shorteners can also be formed from product names, words common to your industry, slogans or even slang.
TinyURL tries to disable spam-related links from redirecting.[30] ZoneAlarm, however, has warned its users: "TinyURL may be unsafe. Check out our post on social commerce for more specifics on the hard value of social media shares—it’s really important to know the impact these things can have on an organizer’s bottom line! It is stored in your My Sailthru Settings under Setup > Domains.
With TinyURL, you can actually customize the end letters and numbers as an option. You are also able to use the same tools such as bookmarklets and third-party apps using their API with your custom domain name.
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. An easier way to get to this website will be to copy/paste smallseotools.com/link-tracker in your search browser. Undo Undo Shorten links ! @sqrl_in 19 Mar 2010 More Signin in with your twitter account and shorten your long links ! Short Domain The first thing you will need to do is purchase a domain for your custom URL shorterner. The benefit to Buffer is being able to keep your feed populated even when you’re too busy to post. buff.ly/0a0b0c0 Hootsuite: For the professional user, there’s Hootsuite. A shorthand link is associated with the registered URL. 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.