Undo Herbert Bay, Entrepreneur and Computer Vision guy Answered 143w ago The word "best" is very relative and depends on your needs. When we shorten a link, it appears like so: Our URLs are shortened and we can still use the tracking features in Bit.ly, but instead of our readers seeing Bit.ly in the shortened links, they see our custom domain. Click the “Shorten” or “Tiny!” button to shrink the size of the URL. Authenticate your Google Analytics profile or enter UA-Code manually. When you click on one of these links, you will (hopefully!) be redirected to a more familiar website. And if I was using Twitter.com to Tweet as I sometimes do, then I wouldn’t use one, I’d just let Twitter shorten it.
More » Ow.ly Another popular alternative, Ow.ly is a link shortener from the leading social media application known as HootSuite. If these names are duplicated it can affect your attribution data's integrity as installs from your owned media are attributed to integrated partners. 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.
Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. Just imagine the number of users who are employing URL shorteners and taking its advantages for free.
Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. A hyperlink or link (clickable URL) is any text, image or button that you can click-on to jump to a new website or new page on the same site. Click the gear wheel to go to Admin in your Google Analytics Dashboard. As you shorten your links, Google will display them below with its long URL version, when it was created, its corresponding shortened goo.gl link and how many clicks it has received.
How often do you get that kind of data from printed marketing? Shortened links allow you to share long URLs in a Tweet while maintaining the maximum number of characters for your message. On Twitter and some instant-messaging services, there is a limit to the number of characters a message can carry – however, Twitter now shortens links automatically using its own URL shortening service, so there is no need to use a separate URL shortening service just to shorten URLs in a tweet. The service will remember your visit and display a list of the links you’ve shortened.