Use an online search tool: One great tool for coming up with good domains for URL shorteners is Domai.nr, which lets you type in a full company name and the site suggests variations of it using numerous alternate extensions and other methods mentioned here and even links you to where you can purchase the domains (this is especially handy for country TLDs). TinyURL tries to disable spam-related links from redirecting.[30] ZoneAlarm, however, has warned its users: "TinyURL may be unsafe.
The secret to high click-through rates involves some of the principles that apply to search engine optimization: Write a descriptive and catchy headline that’s relevant to most of your followers and have a network of people who are truly interested in hearing from you. OneLink™ Custom tracking links are app specific, which always direct clicking users to the page of the app that is specified on the tracking link.
Tip: Many web pages, including Computer Hope, have a Share or E-Mail link that allows you to share it with friends. Maybe you have the ad for your book in your sidebar, in your footer bar, and after your post content. You can use it for one simple link and shorten as usual, or you can shorten a group of links into one shortened link. One of the most popular link shorteners is Bit.ly, and their use of the .ly domain has been a problem for some. As an example, their tracking system could have a macro for ad placement that you use to replace "AFF_SUB", and another macro for traffic source that you use to replace "SOURCE". If your website has thousands of backlinks, you can forget about physically sitting down and tracking each link.
Interestingly, that same infographic suggests that posting shortened URLs later in the week will give them a “longer lifespan”, clicking many days after it was posted. This delay can be made worse if the account is set up close to the weekend because sometimes data aggregation slows and gets pulled in on Monday. Often the redirect domain name is shorter than the original one. Is this part of a broader campaign to talk about a new product? You are also able to use the same tools such as bookmarklets and third-party apps using their API with your custom domain name.
Not everyone is a fan of link shorteners, though, suggesting that they only add a possible layer of failure to the web. For example, if the user clicks on “sales@wearefine.com”, that’s what Google Analytics will record. The examples use curl and OACurl to show you how to get started interacting with the API quickly, right from the command line. But, if you need to shorten some links off of Twitter, or for other reasons, these are all great options.Check out this address: If you visit it, you’ll end up right back here. Link Tracker Keeping track of the links to a website can be quite a tedious task especially if you decide to check every link to your site. Techniques[edit] In URL shortening, every long URL is associated with a unique key, which is the part after its top-level domain name. Use Custom Short URLs in my books and newsletters to encourage trust and build brand loyalty with fans. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. With TinyURL, you can actually customize the end letters and numbers as an option. In this article we’ll discover how to add outbound link tracking. 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.