A common mistake is to duplicate information in this field from other fields. 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. Click the “Shorten” or “Tiny!” button to shrink the size of the URL.
If you are including shortened URLs in a blog or online article, obviously you would like some reassurances that the link will continue to be valid for a long time. Undo Undo URL Shortener @URL_Shorteners_ 27 Dec 2012 More How Google Chrome 25 will tackle malicious extensions Thanks. This article is part of our HasOffers Basics series. With that said, if you do need to track your URLs, or you want alternative ways to post there are plenty of ways to do it: Bit.ly: Probably the most popular URL shortener for Twitter because it was one of the first to let you track your tiny URLs. It’s also popular so a lot of people recognize that a Bitly link is a shortened link and don’t automatically think it’s spam.
When you are using HootSuite, you can shorten any URL to an ow.ly or ht.ly link. They enable campaigns with limited text space, such as SMS campaigns. Registering a short URL[edit] Some websites create short links to make sharing links via instant messaging easier, and to make it cheaper to send them via SMS. It's also important to note that some countries only allow registrations on what's call the third level — .co.uk for example. When a request is received for a shorthand link, the registry database is searched for an associated URL. Consider alternate extensions: If your top choice isn't available, consider using a country code TLD (ccTLD) such as .to or .co.
Some email clients impose a length limit at which lines are automatically broken; requiring the user to paste a long URL back together, rather than just clicking on it. We sold out the event with 850 tickets and had to draw a hard line at closing registration, after releasing an additional 50 tickets, to ensure it wasn’t too crowded (although since it was an open bar party the bar was still a bit overwhelmed!) Check out the photos on our Facebook page from the event and photobooth! Clicking the Details link will show you a graph of visitors who used that shortened URL.
Free users can choose between “go.clickmeter.com“ or “9nl.com“ as a domain name for their tracking link, while pro users can choose their own domain name. So if you accidentally enter the wrong longer URL to the service, the new shorter URL can never be edited to associate it with a different longer URL. And if I was using Twitter.com to Tweet as I sometimes do, then I wouldn’t use one, I’d just let Twitter shorten it. There are a lot of other link shorteners, many being novelty systems (like a link shortener that doesn’t really shorten but turns your URL into a Dickens quote, or one that makes your link look shady and nefarious, or one that churns out a hipster-phrased link) or ways to earn money for yourself or for charities through ads that appear before the user gets to the destination URL. The values for each entry are the same as specified in the Analytics section. Tag each link in an email with a different ad content so that you can see which links get clicked on the most, and how traffic from each link compares once the visitors are on the site. Click alert emails contain vital tracking information and can help you follow up on hot leads, gauge your marketing campaigns, or prompt you to check your affiliate statistics.