You can copy the resulting bit.ly link and use it in your tweets, in your e-mail, or even on your website. With Bitly, you can track how many clicks your shortened links receive, plus bookmark and organize your links on your own personalized Bitly dashboard. To quote John Wanamaker, the father of modern advertising: So which half of your advertising is a waste of money? Once you've found a domain you like, you'll need to register it. The service imports all of your short URLs and stores them and will also take over your URL shortening domain if you decide to close it, ensuring links posted throughout the Internet continue to work.Statistics To view detailed click statistics for any short URL, just add the plus sign + after it, like this: Short link editing You can edit your links in their statistics page.
How to track Link Clicks with Google Analytics To track link clicks in Google Analytics you’ll need to set up custom events. With Bitly, you can track how many clicks your shortened links receive, plus bookmark and organize your links on your own personalized Bitly dashboard.
Example Link Tracking Configuration Perform the following procedures to explore the link tracking behavior of the Adobe Analytics integration. For example, "4" can be used for the "for" sound in a name. Abuse[edit] URL shortening may be utilized by spammers or for illicit internet activities. Initially Twitter automatically translated URLs longer than twenty-six characters using TinyURL, although it began using bit.ly instead in 2009[10] and later developed its own URL shortening service, t.co. A name everyone instantly trusts when they see the URL. Go to my.sailthru.com/pages and click a link to a hosted page.
Undo Undo Shorten URL @ShortenURL 19 Jun 2011 More Statistics for Sunday, June 19, 2011 Thanks. This may sometimes be done using short, CAPTCHA-protected URLs, but this is not common.[3] Makers of URL shorteners usually register domain names with less popular or esoteric Top-level domains in order to achieve a short URL and a catchy name, often using domain hacks. And as with YouTube, if that limit was hit, they just have to add another number, which raises the limit to 1,152,921,504,606,846,976.
Shortened links allow you to share long URLs in a Tweet while maintaining the maximum number of characters for your message. The service imports all of your short URLs and stores them and will also take over your URL shortening domain if you decide to close it, ensuring links posted throughout the Internet continue to work.Use branded short links to build customer trust and increases conversions. You can safely preview a short link by adding ~ or = to the end of the URL, for instance: Bookmarklets Shorten and share any page at the click of a bookmark, without installing extensions or apps. 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. Replace: Consider using letters or numbers in place of words. This doesn’t change the way the PDF document is displayed or downloaded by your users. If you choose to edit the default title, make sure you don't include any special characters. Show our company logo to guest users when they login to create URLs. Your web hosting service provider will have a firewall to protect sites from virus and malware. That’s a lot of back and forth just to get me a a web page.