The links toolbar may not be visible in all setups and in most browsers, you can enable it in the View->Toolbars menu of your web browser. Another privacy problem is that many services' shortened URL format is small enough that it is vulnerable to brute-force search. Some countries place restrictions on who can register domains with its country TLD — though this is becoming less and less common as countries realize the revenue opportunities from selling domains worldwide.
In addition to creating short URL versions in the sidebar, you can get personalized stats about your Bitly links, create Tweets right from within the sidebar, and see who is linking to your URL on Twitter, FriendFeed and blog comments. But if all the links to you use a shorter version, that sort of defeats the point! Please see Google’s help page on Custom Campaigns for more information.
1 billion times.[1] Other uses of URL shortening are to "beautify" a link, track clicks, or disguise the underlying address. There are other masking or cloaking techniques but most are frowned on by search engines due to potential for abuse and usually make use of javascript, server configuration or scripting languages such as php or perl.
Given the choice between spending time and money to find a different home, or just giving up, the latter won out.[22] Google's url-shortener discussion group has frequently included messages from frustrated users reporting that specific shortened URLs have been disabled after they were reported as spam.[23] A study in May 2012 showed that 61% of URL shorteners had shut down (614 of 1002).[24] The most common cause cited was abuse by spammers. This results in registration of different URL shorteners with a myriad of different countries, leaving no relation between the country where the domain has been registered and the URL shortener itself or the shortened links. I’ll use jQuery 1.x for this example since most sites use it but you can substitute a lightweight option such as min.js, Zepto.js, Minified.js or your own event handling functions.
Thus, short URLs may be more convenient for websites or hard copy publications (e.g. a printed magazine or a book), the latter often requiring that very long strings be broken into multiple lines (as is the case with some e-mail software or internet forums) or truncated. You need to be signed in to your bit.ly account before you can enter tracking data for the link. Not everyone is a fan of link shorteners, though, suggesting that they only add a possible layer of failure to the web. Finally, URL shortening sites provide detailed information on the clicks a link receives, which can be simpler than setting up an equally powerful server-side analytics engine, and unlike the latter, does not require any access to the server. Put QR codes on products for our retail customers to scan. 2. They hide the parameters and business logic of your ads, that is otherwise exposed to users. 3. 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. If it’s an outbound link, we’ll cancel the click event and initiate Analytics event tracking. If it’s an outbound link, we’ll cancel the click event and initiate Analytics event tracking. Click the “Shorten” or “Tiny!” button to shrink the size of the URL.