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. Undo Undo Shorten links ! @sqrl_in 19 Mar 2010 More Signin in with your twitter account and shorten your long links ! Bitly is known as one of the pioneers of URL shortener. Link shortening service vb.ly was shut down back in 2010 by Libya, which leads to the problematic fact of link shortening: you depend upon a third-party service to deliver visitors through your shortened links. TinyURL: This shortener use to be all over the internet; however, lately it has died down. For example, if the user clicks on “sales@wearefine.com”, that’s what Google Analytics will record.
Hootsuite users will see their links shortened, but non-Hootsuite users can also use the shortener. For example, to expand , send the following request: GET For instance, you could issue the following curl command: curl '' If successful, the response will look like: { "kind": "urlshortener#url", "id": "", "longUrl": "", "status": "OK" } id is the short URL you passed in. longUrl is the long URL to which it expands. I can even include retargeting (remarketing) in the same link. Having a link shortener protects users from malicious sites that engage in spreading malware, phishing attacks, and other harmful activity. Add Firing Rules: Because this tag is tracking clicks on email addresses…. we want to create firing rules that isolate links to only emails!
If you’re logged in you can also get the shortlink for any page on WordPress.com, there’s a link under the “Blog Info” menu in your admin bar. People have learned that shortened links can lead to any random spam page on the web. Note: As of March 30, 2018, Google's URL shortener is only available to active users, and the data generated by those shortened URLs will only be available until March 2019.
The original URL produced a QR code that is too big to fit on the label so we shorten it first. You can use Analytics Events to track clicks on links that take users to a website other than your own.
For example, if you want to know how many people click on the website link in your Twitter profile, lots of people use a bit.ly link instead of the direct link to their website. URLs encoded in two-dimensional barcodes such as QR code are often shortened by a URL shortener in order to reduce the printed area of the code, or allow printing at lower density in order to improve scanning reliability. The tool is free and can be used whenever you want. Clicking on it will show you a list of outgoing URL(s) users clicked on your website. Crawlers are not allowed behind our login, and do not have a way to get into accounts. Creative-level trackers are the lowest level of segmentation and do not accept any incoming structure data from the URL. Here at CoSchedule we bought cos.sc as our custom domain, and integrated it with Bit.ly. Google has additional means of collecting data: you can gather a lot of statistics when you own the top browser and search engine!