Consider alternate extensions: If your top choice isn't available, consider using a country code TLD (ccTLD) such as .to or .co. Bitly Tools If you think you will be needing an email shortener on a regular basis, you might as well go ahead and register on Bitly‘s site. They offer some convenient tools to make shortening URLs a faster process.
See how that one event isn’t named correctly, so it shows as undefined? Add TinyURL to your browser's toolbar Click and drag the following link to your links toolbar. If the shorthand link is found to be associated with a URL, the URL is fetched, otherwise an error message is returned.[7] The patent was filed in September 2000; while the patent was issued in 2005, US patent applications are made public within 18 months of filing.
Note: If the address bar is not visible, try scrolling up using your finger. Professional marketers never sent traffic directly to their website or landing page. You need to be signed in to your bit.ly account before you can enter tracking data for the link. There are security implications, and obsolete short URLs remain in existence and may be circulated long after they cease to point to a relevant or even extant destination. Handy stuff for keyboard devotees, the add-on-averse, and for when you're working from a browser that's not your own.Check out this address: If you visit it, you’ll end up right back here. If you can't find a link here, try the Wikipedia list of TLDs.
But if all the links to you use a shorter version, that sort of defeats the point! Contents Purposes[edit] There are several reasons to use URL shortening. As they say, barriers can boost creativity, so people have learned to be pretty witty with 280 characters, even inventing hashtags to make the whole process easier.
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. You can test that the certificate files were successfully processed by using one of your Hosted Pages. When used this way, all user activity on such elements is calculated and displayed as Events in the Analytics reporting interface. Services available include an ordinary, easy-to-say word as the URL with a lifetime from 5 minutes up to 24 hours, creation of a URL which will expire on a specified date or after a specified period, creation of a very-short-lived URL of only 5 characters for typing into a smartphone, restriction by the creator of the total number of uses of the URL, and password protection. If it's not available, you'll need to locate a registrar who handles the domain extension in question. TweetDeck and Seesmic (TweetDeck’s direct competitor) both offer numerous URL-shortener options (bit.ly, is.gd, TinyURL, and twURL), but only bit.ly offers click tracking. With the URL Shortener API you can write applications that use simple HTTP methods to create, inspect, and manage goo.gl short links from desktop, mobile, or web.