Often the redirect domain name is shorter than the original one. Bitly also allows you to customize the actual shortened link (if your customization is still available). To view stats for your custom campaigns go to Google Analytics Reporting » Traffic » Sources » Campaigns and you will see something like this. If a search engine does not find a website, that spells the end of that website's existence. You may also want to consider joining 301works, a free service from the Internet Archive that works to create a database of all shortened URL mappings. If it contains any query strings such as ? & = then it is a dynamic URL. eg: 357&sort=date (Note also that blank spaces are never allowed in a web address).
Once logged in, you should now be able shorten your URLs with your custom short URL. If you pick masked forwarding, the URL will show as your personal shortened domain in browsers.
You can use your own short URLs to point to different pages on your site. From there, you can click Export as CSV to download a list of contacts for each link result.
To send the results to other people, enter their email addresses in the CC field. We recommend having a domain name dedicated to your shortener, though.
Backlinks are followed by Google's robot to check if it’s a valid link. Click rate Percentage of total recipients who clicked any tracked link in the campaign. All you need to do on this page is type in your LinkedIn profile URL and pick which type of forwarding you want to use. Get an alert email when someone clicks your link. Undo Undo Shorten links ! @sqrl_in 18 Mar 2010 More Google entering the 'smart TV' market, reports say – SciTechBlog - CNN.com Blogs - Thanks. You just end up following other people who fell for the same thing and you’re all tweeting to each other, without any of you really listening to what the other ones have to say.I haven’t heard of any account getting banned for using a URL shortener, so you should be in the clear to use any URL shortener of your choice. This point was underscored a few days ago when a popular one, tr.im, announced they were going to shut down at the end of the year. Transnational law[edit] Shortened internet links typically use foreign country domain names, and are therefore under the jurisdiction of that nation. Services available include an ordinary, easy-to-say word as the URL with a lifetime from 5 minutes up to 24 hours, creation of a URL which will expire on a specified date or after a specified period, creation of a very-short-lived URL of only 5 characters for typing into a smartphone, restriction by the creator of the total number of uses of the URL, and password protection. However, they do not always yield positive results, and can be time consuming. For more information about shell shortcuts, see IShellLink. Some shortening services, such as goo.gl, tinyurl.com, and bit.ly can generate URLs that are human-readable, although the resulting strings are longer than those generated by a length-optimized service. Maybe, the footer bar and the after post banner is working the best, but your sidebar ad is not. Google Analytics even has a URL Builder tool where you can generate a URL with UTM parameters. This is compatible with most web browsers and platforms as long as your bookmarks or favorites allow javascript.