This may sometimes be done using short, CAPTCHA-protected URLs, but this is not common.[3] Makers of URL shorteners usually register domain names with less popular or esoteric Top-level domains in order to achieve a short URL and a catchy name, often using domain hacks. In order to get your domain short enough to be effective as a URL shortener, you may want to consider these tips: Removing vowels: This is an effective way to shortener your organization's name and still making it easy to understand.
Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. You can then create tags that wait for the gtm.linkClick event to happen, and perform additional tasks (like the external link tracker tag described below). note: There are a number of tagging strategies. Undo Undo URL Shortener @URL_Shorteners_ 17 Dec 2012 More Have you experimented with promoted tweets on ?
See also[edit] [edit] External links[edit] URL redirection and shortening at Curlie (based on DMOZ) Comparison of URL Shortening Services, SearchEngineLand. Include retargeting pixels in my links to build a fan list. Get all the handy power of a link in a much smaller package, right?
Well, Twitter actually increased the maximum amount of words (to about 120) allowed in a tweet and that’s a good one. Everything is changing. In this article we’ll discover how to add outbound link tracking. Don't use your company name: URL shorteners can also be formed from product names, words common to your industry, slogans or even slang.
Undo Undo Shorten URL @ShortenURL 15 May 2011 More Statistics for Sunday, May 15, 2011 Thanks. You publicize this page through twitter, facebook, various banner placement on your website, email newsletter, etc. A circumvention could be that a website provided its own shortlinks instead of relying on a third-party shortening service – but this is not common. Examples: Netflix at one time used movi.es and BarkBox, which supplies dog treat gift packages, use the URL shortener ruv.me. 584+00:00", "items": [ { "kind": "urlshortener#url", "id": "", "longUrl": "", "status": "OK", "created": "2009-12-13T07:22:55. A short URL eliminates this problem. • People sometimes guess the domain name of sites they have not visited before; so pick a name that describes your blog, company or brand. We’ll want to know: Where users are going How often they’re clicking What pages they’re clicking from The anchor text they’re clicking on From the data we can take action by: Pruning unclicked links Create new content in the vein of the highly clicked links Update the current article to provide additional clarity Using GTM for Event Tracking While you can use jQuery to track the click events, we’ll be using Google Tag Manager because the auto-event tracking feature makes it a fairly simple implementation and future tweaks won’t require engineering cycles or production pushes. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. Let's say that you have a website with the homepage that is at: Entering that URL into TinyURL will create a URL like With this you can then redirect someone to anywhere within your site by appending a slash and the pages filename to it.