But, if you need to shorten some links off of Twitter, or for other reasons, these are all great options.Viral videos are a great way to market your business, and YouTube is the most widely used video-sharing service on the Web. Links to Sailthru Hosted Pages are not tracked and are not included in reporting.
Other URL shortening services provide a similar destination display.[32] Security professionals suggest that users check a short URL's destination before accessing it[citation needed], following an instance where shortening service cli.gs was compromised, exposing millions of users to security uncertainties.[33] There are several web applications that can display the destination URL of a shortened URL.[citation needed] Some URL shortening services filter their links through bad-site screening services such as Google Safe Browsing. When a link is created to a file, the target file is considered the link source, and the creator of the link is the link client. If you notice a difference in how links perform against each other, you may decide to change how your emails are laid out, or you may start to pay more attention to which pictures or phrases you use.
Every blog and post on WordPress.com has a WP.me URL now. TweetDeck and Seesmic (TweetDeck’s direct competitor) both offer numerous URL-shortener options (bit.ly, is.gd, TinyURL, and twURL), but only bit.ly offers click tracking. Consider alternate extensions: If your top choice isn't available, consider using a country code TLD (ccTLD) such as .to or .co. The key to protecting your SEO, then, is to choose a link shortening service that uses a 301 redirect.
Links shared on Twitter, including links shared in Direct Messages, will automatically be processed and shortened to an link. Another consideration is that some countries also restrict what content can be used their TLDs, so if you intend in shortening content that might be in violation of these laws, you'll need to find another TLD.
Shortening a long address or URL Some web pages may have a long URL that can present problems when it is pasted into another program, especially an e-mail. We want tracking to work everywhere so I recommend using a library with robust cross-browser event handling. Undo Undo Shorten URL @ShortenURL 10 Jul 2011 More Statistics for Sunday, July 10, 2011 Thanks. Our CTID can be passed through any affiliate network using SubID tracking. You can also pass the CTID to affiliate networks with pixel tracking or postback tracking if the network supports it. Use a smart link to detect language preference of visitor and automatically route to either our English content or Spanish content. Organize all my important digital resources with easy to remember, keyword-rich short links. First, we walk OACurl through the OAuth login dance in order to acquire an auth token: $ oacurl-login --scope That should launch a browser window asking for permission to authorize OACurl to the Google URL Shortener data on your Google account. It also creates a dashboard of URLs as you go, so you can see your existing links and avoid duplication. When you click on a backlink, it might open in the same tab or a new tab or window.