When using Google Analytics to track your link, the most common setup is to have the Javascript tracking code for Google Analytics placed on a page where your contacts visit. In April 2009, TinyURL was reported to be blocked in Saudi Arabia.[27] Yahoo!
Bitly will download and add a thumbnail photo and the title for each link in the bundle. Once you've found a domain you like, you'll need to register it.
The last thing that any website owner wants is to discover that his or her website has been blacklisted and removed from search engines. Many people use URL shorteners when they share links to private content, and in fact many web services like Google Maps have offered automatic generation of shortened links for driving directions that reveal personal information like home addresses and sensitive destinations like "clinics for specific diseases (including cancer and mental diseases), addiction treatment centers, abortion providers, correctional and juvenile detention facilities, payday and car-title lenders, gentlemen’s clubs, etc."[34][35] Additional layer of complexity[edit] Short URLs, although making it easier to access what might otherwise be a very long URL or user-space on an ISP server, add an additional layer of complexity to the process of retrieving web pages.
Further data will appear in the Behavior > Events pane after a few hours.You can make an unlimited number of links with any account - including the free one. If you go to that website, there is an edit box near the top of the page where you can paste in a longer URL for a web page, such as , and then click on the Shorten button. Add TinyURL to your browser's toolbar Click and drag the following link to your links toolbar. More » AdF.ly AdF.ly takes an interesting approach to link shortening by offering its users the opportunity to earn money by using its service. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better.
This is key to search engine optimization as it ensures that search engine spiders won't think the shortener URL is the "real" URL to the page. Sometimes a short URL is useful simply to give someone over a telephone conversation for a one-off access or file download, and no longer needed within a couple of minutes. Undo Undo Shorten URL @ShortenURL 20 May 2011 More Revision 359: + Added feature: include title when posting to Twitter/StatusNet Thanks. Your campaign report will show which contacts clicked your links, and how many times each link was clicked. You should use the one that’s right for your use case, but below is what I typically use on this site. From Google Event Tracking Guide Event Tracking is a method available in the ga.js tracking code that you can use to record user interaction with website elements, such as a Flash-driven menu system. Typically, it’s used for recording on-page JavaScript-controlled interactivity such as opening a widget or making an Ajax call. Undo Undo Shorten links ! @sqrl_in 18 Mar 2010 More was updated yesterday. You can also view a world map where your last 50 clicks came from. Determines unique and non-unique click distribution. Recently bit.ly announced the addition of a premium service to its URL-tracking system.