The customized bit.ly version allows you to use your own domain name for branded short links which can be easily shared on Twitter, Facebook or other social media sites. Select "Get Tracking ID." If you’re setting up a new property, choose "Get Tracking ID" to generate the tracking ID for your event listing. Maybe you have the ad for your book in your sidebar, in your footer bar, and after your post content. Share Your Tracking Pages We built this feature specifically for customers who had their own clients and wanted to share their tracking data with them. Libya, for instance, exercised its control over the .ly domain in October 2010 to shut down vb.ly for violating Libyan pornography laws.
Another privacy problem is that many services' shortened URL format is small enough that it is vulnerable to brute-force search. This should not contain information already in the campaign name or medium fields. White labeling lets me present a positive picture of our company as clients see our agency logo when they login to create URLs. Your custom title will also appear at the end of the URL parameter, so you can see the stats for each individual PDF.
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Some URL shortening sites, such as TinyURL.com, will also offer you an option to specify your own “key” or alias for the longer URL you supply. I could probably go on and on with a dozen more URL shorteners, but lets be honest, you only need one.
They also allow you to track your links and provide you with the ability to understand and visualise your audience. Abuse decreases significantly when google shortener links are used.
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.
You can also find out how many clicks your particular bit.ly link got compared to the total clicks on the long link. Those groups can often be subdivided further to show you exactly which publishers, affiliates, or keywords work best. Boom, ka-bang, you can now see your PDF's Pageviews, Unique Pageviews, Avg. It's usually a good idea to announce, on any of your social media services you plan to use the shortener on, that you'll be shortening links through a custom domain form now on just so users feel comfortable clicking the links. In addition to easy link shortening, you can use the service with your own domain, customize the characters at the end of your links, get real-time statistics and even see which countries your clicks are coming from. Abuse[edit] URL shortening may be utilized by spammers or for illicit internet activities. From there, you can click Export as CSV to download a list of contacts for each link result. Not all redirection is treated equally; the redirection instruction sent to a browser can contain in its header the HTTP status 301 (permanent redirect), 302, or 307 (temporary redirect). For example, label the company logo that shows up on each email as "logo", or the main picture in an email as "main picture". In the “Auto-Append Link Parameters” field write the new or current parameter with its respective value, such as utm_medium=MorningEmail You can turn on this setting independent of the Link Tracking setting. To double check, replicate the campaign and look at the tracking options you selected. After that, it’s up to you to decide what you need. Shortening links for Twitter simply means reducing its length and at the same time, it still works correctly.