UA code is the unique identifier for each Analytics account you create. 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. Check out our review of this fantastic tool to see how it works.
When you schedule a link Tweet via Hootsuite, you can shorten the link to an owl.ly link. owl.ly/0a0b0c0 Google: As always, Google has something for you too. But like I said, on Twitter, the Twitter folks have already figured out the whole URL shortening thing. So understanding how users are interacting with those external links can be helpful. Creative Files When creative files have been added to an offer, the offer's Generate Tracking panel will have an additional item labeled Creative. When you select a creative file from the dropdown menu, your tracking link is appended with the following parameter: file_id This parameter also appears in the standalone tracking link to track the performance of the creative in the stats reports: Deep Links If you have the custom deep link feature enabled for an offer, you can set a custom redirect URL to use instead of using one of the existing landing page URLs set in the offer already.
Not only is this good for link shortening, but it is also good for SEO. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. Here, we'll go over how you can customize an affiliate tracking link to your needs using HasOffers parameters. We introduced parameters, values, macros, and how they fit into your workflow in our article on Parameters & Macros in HasOffers. Twitter.com: The truth is that the best URL shortener for Twitter is the one that’s built into Twitter. Then, use the tracking link in your ads and promotions.
Search Engines and Link Indexing Two methods that search engines use to discover links and pages: 1) Webmasters can inform search engines about new links with a submission form. 1 billion times.[12] Around that time, bit.ly and TinyURL were the most widely used URL-shortening services.[12] One service, tr.im, stopped generating short URLs in 2009, blaming a lack of revenue-generating mechanisms to cover costs and Twitter's default use of the bit.ly shortener, and questioning whether other shortening services could be profitable from URL shortening in the longer term.[13] It resumed for a time,[14] then closed. Consider alternate extensions: If your top choice isn't available, consider using a country code TLD (ccTLD) such as .to or .co. Additional Offer URLs & Random URL If the offer has more than one URL to send traffic to, the offer's Generate Tracking panel will have an additional dropdown below the Affiliate dropdown menu. Here, you can provide an additional offer URL. Undo Undo Shorten links ! @sqrl_in 7 Apr 2010 More Create shorter links in twitter with Thanks.
Build trust & increase click rate: people tend to click on the links that they trust rather than unknown URLs (ie. bit.ly/buSzh might be a spam link). Enter your user name and password and you should be connected, test the connection and you are all set to go. Facebook has this new colored status background feature that works when your status is short and straight to the point. Unfortunately, this URL shortener doesn’t allow you do create a custom short URL. One new and creative way to use a domain that is quickly gaining in popularity is using a domain like . Edit short URLs or QR codes to fix broken pages any time I need it. You can test that the certificate files were successfully processed by using one of your Hosted Pages. The shortest possible long-term URLs were generated by NanoURL from December 2009 until about 2011, associated with the top-level .to (Tonga) domain, in the form , where xxxx represents a sequence of random numbers and letters.[15] On 14 December 2009 Google announced a service called Google URL Shortener at goo.gl, which originally was only available for use through Google products (such as Google Toolbar and FeedBurner) and extensions for Google Chrome.[17] On 21 December 2009, Google introduced a YouTube URL Shortener, youtu.be.[18] From September 2010 Google URL Shortener became available via a direct interface. See how that one event isn’t named correctly, so it shows as undefined?