Note: In the below image, more than one language is enabled for the site, therefore the link includes the associated language. 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. Facebook has this new colored status background feature that works when your status is short and straight to the point. By entering in a URL in the text field below, we will create a tiny URL that will not break in email postings and never expires.
Undo Undo URL Shortener @URL_Shorteners_ 14 Dec 2012 More Thanks. Additionally, this website is designed to be easy to use with any smartphone or tablet. I like Bitly because it has a pretty interface and a login for all of the links you create. Enter data in the required fields and click 'Track Now.' This utility will display the URL, and if it is indexed by search engines and its PR value. Hover over the open or click percentage for any sent campaign to see the number of opens or clicks.
Some will show up as a referral from a webmail address, like mail.yahoo.com. In some cases, the political or cultural aspects of the country in charge of the top-level domain may become an issue for users and owners,[4] but this is not usually the case.
Techniques[edit] In URL shortening, every long URL is associated with a unique key, which is the part after its top-level domain name. Move up one directory and repeat steps 1 and 2 another three times, which can yield results if the object has moved nearby.
Aside from the custom domains that you can use with the premium option, you can also view campaign comparison charts, download the data as an excel file, filter clicks data, and much more. Not everyone is a fan of link shorteners, though, suggesting that they only add a possible layer of failure to the web. Abbreviate or shorten: Use common abbreviations to make things shorter or just chop off some letters of your name. You can then create tags that wait for the gtm.linkClick event to happen, and perform additional tasks (like the external link tracker tag described below). note: There are a number of tagging strategies. As they say, barriers can boost creativity, so people have learned to be pretty witty with 280 characters, even inventing hashtags to make the whole process easier. Or you can use a utility to display all the backlinks to your site and copy them from there. Include retargeting pixels in my links to build a fan list. And if I was using Twitter.com to Tweet as I sometimes do, then I wouldn’t use one, I’d just let Twitter shorten it. For example, to shorten the URL , send the following request: POST Content-Type: application/json {"longUrl": ""} For instance, you could issue the following curl command: curl \ -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \ -d '{"longUrl": ""}' If successful, the response will look like: { "kind": "urlshortener#url", "id": "", "longUrl": "" } id is the short URL that expands to the long URL you provided.