Don't use your company name: URL shorteners can also be formed from product names, words common to your industry, slogans or even slang. You can also log into your Buffer account on the web or by downloading the mobile app to track your analytics and see how many clicks that your links have gotten. Use Custom Short URLs in my books and newsletters to encourage trust and build brand loyalty with fans. 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. I also worry that because shorteners are essentially open proxies of HTTP they’ll be exploited by spammers and malware distributors to the point where businesses, anti-phishing, and anti-virus services will be forced to block them.
Therefore among the other tasks that you perform on your website, use this handy link tracker also. If your website has WordPress installed in a directory, your options might look like this, where our blog is installed in the “blog” directory: If your website is your WordPress installation, it might look like this: This works best when you choose a page slug that is short and mindful of keywords. Perhaps, you can try improving your ad and then do A/B testing.
Some will show up as a referral from a webmail address, like mail.yahoo.com. See also[edit] [edit] External links[edit] URL redirection and shortening at Curlie (based on DMOZ) Comparison of URL Shortening Services, SearchEngineLand.
Don't use your company name: URL shorteners can also be formed from product names, words common to your industry, slogans or even slang. Some link shorteners allow custom domains, and some don’t.
All you have to do is enter your destination URL, and give your tracking link a name. That limits your ability to do roll-up and drill-down reporting. To track owned media successfully you need to create Custom Tracking Links. Undo Undo Shorten links ! @sqrl_in 19 Mar 2010 More Google moves could bring fast Web apps closer - Thanks.