Alternatively, if uppercase and lowercase letters are differentiated, then each character can represent a single digit within a number of base 62 (26 + 26 + 10). 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. In April 2009, TinyURL was reported to be blocked in Saudi Arabia.[27] Yahoo! In April 2009, TinyURL was reported to be blocked in Saudi Arabia.[27] Yahoo!
It works almost immediately and you can shorten as much as you want, anytime. You can expect a 4 percent click-through rate (four clicks on your bit.ly link out of 100 total clicks on that blog or content link) for a well-crafted, valuable, interesting tweet.
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. Update your public profile settings will show up if you don't have a public profile. Undo Undo URL Shortener @URL_Shorteners_ 5 Dec 2012 More When to sell a name you make actually use.
Then reconnect with the same interested audience when my sequel is ready to be released. In 2011, the bit.ly address was set to redirect to bitly.com.[clarification needed] The .ly TLD is controlled by the Libyan government, which has previously removed one domain deemed incompatible with Muslim law.[12] Any shortened URL generated with bitly can also be accessed by replacing that domain with any one of the following: bitly.com j.mp (registered to bitly, and using the top-level domain of the Northern Mariana Islands, a commonwealth of the United States).
Often the redirect domain name is shorter than the original one. It's also important to note that some countries only allow registrations on what's call the third level — .co.uk for example. Shortened links allow you to share long URLs in a Tweet while maintaining the maximum number of characters for your message. Other link tracker software use only cookies, which severely limits what you can track and how you track. The Google Analytics campaign title combines the MailChimp campaign title with the date and the Campaign ID. Once you are sure that your WordPress site does not have Google Analytics code, go to Settings » Google Analytics. If you can't find a link here, try the Wikipedia list of TLDs. Parts of a URL Note that www. is only a subdomain. See also[edit] [edit] External links[edit] URL redirection and shortening at Curlie (based on DMOZ) Comparison of URL Shortening Services, SearchEngineLand. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. Keyword This field should never be used in an email campaign. We strongly recommend you thoroughly test your campaigns that use Google Analytics tracking to ensure your links function properly. Maybe you have the ad for your book in your sidebar, in your footer bar, and after your post content. Here's an example of an affiliate tracking link that includes both of these types of parameters: For the above tracking link, the affiliate would provide the appropriate macros from their tracking system to replace the "CLICKID" and "UNIQUEVALUE" placeholder values. If you set Use Google Analytics? to “Yes”, then all links will add special utm parameters that will allow you to identify traffic coming from emails in Google Analytics. Therefore, as a Twitter marketer who needs to track link performance, you should use bit.ly.