This allows you to compare and optimise different sources. Wikipedia entries on TLDs typically include information on all these restrictions in the right sidebar of each TLD's entry. Don't use your company name: URL shorteners can also be formed from product names, words common to your industry, slogans or even slang. For example, let’s say that you have a page on your blog where you sell an ebook. Short URLs, for example, will be subject to linkrot if the shortening service stops working; all URLs related to the service will become broken.
They also allow you to track your links and provide you with the ability to understand and visualise your audience. GET THE FREE EMAIL COURSE Straight to your inbox Get the best email and digital marketing content delivered. Turn Click Tracking On or Off For compliance reasons, click tracking is required in all free accounts and new paid accounts. Using campaign tracking, however, you will be able to analyze your email traffic in great detail. 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. When using Google Analytics to track your link, the most common setup is to have the Javascript tracking code for Google Analytics placed on a page where your contacts visit.
Will it be a similar message throughout several emails? It frees up valuable real estate in social messages. For example, if you want to know how many people click on the website link in your Twitter profile, lots of people use a bit.ly link instead of the direct link to their website.
If the URL you want isn't available, please select a different one. Here’s an article that will show you how to shorten links for Twitter. You'll also get detailed statistics for every link when you sign up for an account, and you're paid via PayPal for payouts as low as $5. More » Bit.do Bit.do is another great alternative that's both simple and powerful. Facebook has this new colored status background feature that works when your status is short and straight to the point. 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. Click outside the box to update your generated tracking link.
Although disguising of the underlying address may be desired for legitimate business or personal reasons, it is open to abuse. All links will automatically be rewritten when they are included in your emails, wrapped in a unique tracking URL that uses the Link Domain you have set on your Settings Page. To activate link tracking for a given template or campaign, within its settings, simply ensure that the Link Tracking option is set to Yes. We recommend turning on link tracking; if link tracking is disabled, the attribution described above will not function. Advantages of Using Your Own Domain URLs: Promote your site (branding): when people retweet, your domain will fly around. A collaborative and customizable editorial calendar. For example, a bad campaign name would be "Winter 2009 email" because email is the medium, and it restricts your ability to reuse the same campaign name for other mediums. If you can't find a link here, try the Wikipedia list of TLDs. You’d be able to see anytime someone who got your direct mail package in the mail, actually went to your website. This is key to search engine optimization as it ensures that search engine spiders won't think the shortener URL is the "real" URL to the page.