Some countries place restrictions on who can register domains with its country TLD — though this is becoming less and less common as countries realize the revenue opportunities from selling domains worldwide. The key to protecting your SEO, then, is to choose a link shortening service that uses a 301 redirect. You may still want to track your URLs to see how well your tweets are performing.
The links toolbar may not be visible in all setups and in most browsers, you can enable it in the View->Toolbars menu of your web browser. You need an Admin user level or higher to connect this integration. 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. Type any message that you want to add to the link into the text input field.
Contents Purposes[edit] There are several reasons to use URL shortening. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. Once you are sure that your WordPress site does not have Google Analytics code, go to Settings » Google Analytics. This results in registration of different URL shorteners with a myriad of different countries, leaving no relation between the country where the domain has been registered and the URL shortener itself or the shortened links.
You can copy the resulting bit.ly link and use it in your tweets, in your e-mail, or even on your website. They are also my favorite in the space, because they allow for you to customize your bitlinks to have any ending you choose. The short URL can allow blacklisted URLs to be accessed, bypassing site blocks; this facilitates redirection of a user to blacklisted scam pages or pages containing malware or XSS attacks. I can see exactly how many page views and ticket sales result from various methods of getting the word out. In your Bitly account settings, you can, among other things, create a custom short domain name for your Bitly links. A real-time dashboard with traffic analytics and referrer data shows how many people shared and clicked your links. bit.ly is a free service.
To view the link tracking data, update this page and then return to the Edit PageA page on a DNN site. of this item. That limits your ability to do roll-up and drill-down reporting. We have already discussed how Google treats websites with spam links. Whatever URL shortening service you use, you should probably read through their help to determine whether they also make their links permanent. And as with YouTube, if that limit was hit, they just have to add another number, which raises the limit to 1,152,921,504,606,846,976. Advanced Statistics (Referrer, Browser, Platforms). But if all the links to you use a shorter version, that sort of defeats the point! Link Masking Potential buyers sometimes avoid clicking if they can see that the link involves marketing efforts or affiliate commisions.