Personally, I use Hootsuite for all of my Twitter’ing so I don’t have the need to go out and shorten it separately. I could probably go on and on with a dozen more URL shorteners, but lets be honest, you only need one. But I find this to be in the common order of usage for my own needs. At Track Number Of Times This Link Is Clicked? mark the check box to enable link tracking. - OR - unmark the check box to disable it.
Undo Undo URL Shortener @URL_Shorteners_ 26 Dec 2012 More What were your favorite memories from 2012? When you add Google Analytics tracking to an email campaign, we supply a default title for your campaign that will appear in your Google Analytics account and your tracking URLs.
They look pretty good and keep links personal and consistent with your brand. This can be done online, at the web pages of a URL shortening service; to do it in batch or on demand may require the use of an API.
With Bitly, you can track how many clicks your shortened links receive, plus bookmark and organize your links on your own personalized Bitly dashboard. On that page, set Specify payout on click to "Enabled" and click Save once you're finished.
Let's say that you have a website with the homepage that is at: Entering that URL into TinyURL will create a URL like With this you can then redirect someone to anywhere within your site by appending a slash and the pages filename to it. Professional account holders can set an alert threshold and receive a single email notification when their link reaches a certain number of clicks. Type or paste the full URL of the link that you want to add to your Facebook wall into the input field. The short URL can allow blacklisted URLs to be accessed, bypassing site blocks; this facilitates redirection of a user to blacklisted scam pages or pages containing malware or XSS attacks. Use short links with Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) Beacons for asset tracking and proximity marketing. Select the “Google Universal Analytics” tracking pixel button. 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.