Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. You can use initials for one or more words or, if it works, all of them. When a visitor clicks on your tracking link, LinkTrackr places a cookie on the user’s computer, as well as generate a unique Click Tracking ID or CTID.
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. The shortest possible long-term URLs were generated by NanoURL from December 2009 until about 2011, associated with the top-level .to (Tonga) domain, in the form , where xxxx represents a sequence of random numbers and letters.[15] On 14 December 2009 Google announced a service called Google URL Shortener at goo.gl, which originally was only available for use through Google products (such as Google Toolbar and FeedBurner) and extensions for Google Chrome.[17] On 21 December 2009, Google introduced a YouTube URL Shortener, youtu.be.[18] From September 2010 Google URL Shortener became available via a direct interface.
Undo Undo Shorten URL @ShortenURL 20 May 2011 More Revision 360: x Refactored Thanks. You publicize this page through twitter, facebook, various banner placement on your website, email newsletter, etc.
Find the unsubscribe link in your campaign, right click, and copy the link address. ClickMeter is a super-easy to use web-based professional tool.
If you have stored your links in some document, you can copy/paste from there. So if you have a page at , you can use the URL and going to this URL will forward the visitor to the page in your website. The secret to high click-through rates involves some of the principles that apply to search engine optimization: Write a descriptive and catchy headline that’s relevant to most of your followers and have a network of people who are truly interested in hearing from you. Failure to predict such problems with URL shorteners and investment in URL shortening companies may reflect a lack of due diligence.[26] Blocking and banning[edit] Some websites prevent short, redirected URLs from being posted. If you would like to read more from me, follow me Quora Vijay Gaur Disclosure : I co-own BrandNshout .com,a Digital marketing and Branding company. Fortunately, we can gather outbound link details ourselves. He tracked seven 301 redirects before he got to the actual URL destination. Click alert emails contain vital tracking information and can help you follow up on hot leads, gauge your marketing campaigns, or prompt you to check your affiliate statistics. Write down this value and the combination title or description it goes with so you can reference it when you view your data in Google Analytics later. 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.