Your link stats will also be public if you use this service. Users are warned with the error message below when clicking on potentially harmful URLs. If the URL of a site you manage has been flagged, please see this help page about flagged URLs for more information.I haven’t heard of any account getting banned for using a URL shortener, so you should be in the clear to use any URL shortener of your choice.
When this feature is used, links to your site that Sailthru includes in your email campaigns are wrapped in a redirect URL beginning with link.
Their story had a happy ending in that someone came in and saved them, but it was hard not to think of what would have happened if all their links stopped redirecting one day: part of the web would go dark. We can detect whether a link will open a page on a domain which is different to ours.
The nice thing about it is that it’s a short link, about 70% smaller than the permalink for this post. Buffer: If you currently use Buffer or manage your social media channels this is a great platform. We recommend choosing only one type of Google Analytics tracking.
The Apple App Site Association File is not required. 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 you use a third-party for some of your emails, you might use that third-party's name. 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.
UA code is the unique identifier for each Analytics account you create. Some shortening services, such as goo.gl, tinyurl.com, and bit.ly can generate URLs that are human-readable, although the resulting strings are longer than those generated by a length-optimized service. 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. For example: Services Brochure In the above URL we’ve added the parameter “?pdf=Services-Brochure” to the end of the PDF URL link. For example, New York Times uses the shortened address “nyti.ms”. This should be for the link domain only; no wildcards. You could create a complex UTM code structure for a link but then shorten it via Bitly and use the link on a piece of direct mail. Many extensions are available from companies you already use for domain registration — such as Hover.