Set Your Own Expiration Dates Want your links to automatically expire on a specific date? Undo Undo Shorten URL @ShortenURL 20 May 2011 More Revision 361: Increased max-version Thanks.
It’s a free platform for scheduling and managing Tweets, like Tweetdeck. 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. Transnational law[edit] Shortened internet links typically use foreign country domain names, and are therefore under the jurisdiction of that nation. The Summary tab shows all clicks on different ow.ly and ht.ly links shared over the course of seven days. If it’s an outbound link, we’ll cancel the click event and initiate Analytics event tracking.
Improper link formatting and other issues can cause problems with click tracking. Finally, URL shortening sites provide detailed information on the clicks a link receives, which can be simpler than setting up an equally powerful server-side analytics engine, and unlike the latter, does not require any access to the server. 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.
Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. Understanding which external links are most often clicked on your website will help you understand what kind of information users are looking for. On other such services, using a URL shortener can allow linking to web pages which would otherwise violate this constraint.
As an example of how link tracking works, if your site’s domain is example.com, your link domain might be set to link.example.com. That’s what tells the systems at Instagram and YouTube which photo you require, and it does it in 11 characters to make it as short as possible. This allows you to compare and optimise different sources. But, as Matt Cutts says in this video, the page rank and anchor text will flow through the shortened link and that there shouldn’t be any harm in using them…as long as the URL shortener is using a 301 redirect. Distributed Link Tracking Server The distributed link tracking server runs on each domain controller in a domain. Replace: Consider using letters or numbers in place of words. Create a variable in Google Tag Manager that picks up the client ID.