Your brand, your name–it’s carried across into the very links that you are sharing. This helps let people know they aren’t spam. As long as your custom domain relates to your brand and you use it consistently, people will know that the links you are sharing have been vetted by you. After you have an API key, your application can append the query parameter key=yourAPIKey to all request URLs. Users can create these short links through the web interface at goo.gl, or they can programatically create them through the URL Shortener API. Additional language profiles have the same URL, but LinkedIn will add a language field at the end.
It's one of the most widely used options out there, and you'll often find it integrated with lots of other services as well as third party apps like TweetDeck and TwitterFeed. Media query change tracking If you're tracking media query values, it's often useful to know if and when those values change. Your link stats will also be public if you use this service. And http:// www.tiny.cc is not a required format because the tiny.cc site happens to be configured without a subdomain (www. was made optional). is shorter and boiled down to only the required parts that make a URL functional: protocol + domain + top level domain (http:// + tiny + .cc).
Link Masking Potential buyers sometimes avoid clicking if they can see that the link involves marketing efforts or affiliate commisions. If your website has thousands of backlinks, you can forget about physically sitting down and tracking each link.
Dead simple to manage multiple custom domains and multiple clients from a single account Consistent branding impression. Bitly makes money by charging for access to aggregate data created as a result of many people using the shortened URLs.
Initially Twitter automatically translated URLs longer than twenty-six characters using TinyURL, although it began using bit.ly instead in 2009[10] and later developed its own URL shortening service, t.co. For specific examples about email, PDF, social media links, and more see Part II.
Here's an example of what the link to Eventrbite would look like with the cross-domain parameter added: Let’s break that down: is the link to your event on Eventbrite ?_eboga is the supported Eventbrite cross domain parameter 45698745. Linkrot[edit] The convenience offered by URL shortening also introduces potential problems, which have led to criticism of the use of these services.
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.
They look pretty good and keep links personal and consistent with your brand. Go to the homepage of the URL shortening service that you used in the first step.
When this feature is used, links to your site that Sailthru includes in your email campaigns are wrapped in a redirect URL beginning with link.