Add password protection to your links to control who has access. Technology[edit] The company uses HTTP 301 redirects for its links. Techniques[edit] In URL shortening, every long URL is associated with a unique key, which is the part after its top-level domain name. Its popularity influenced the creation of at least 100 similar websites,[9] although most are simply domain alternatives. The downside of this approach, however, is that if a user visits your shortened domain without a directory path on the end, they will be directed to a Bitly branded page. There are several techniques to implement a URL shortening.
Once you've integrated with App Indexing and your deep links are enabled with goo.gl, you can integrate the URL Shortener API into your app or website's share flow to allow your users to share links that provide the best possible experience on every platform.The end variable - in your example, the “KqzGgBhM5” - is a reference number that is checked against a database. A short link which expires, or can be terminated, has some security advantages. You should add this script in your page header, but not within the basic Analytics tracking code snippet. Our favorite is YOURLS, but Lessn More is another good free option. If done properly you should have "" on the above box.
You can also put it in your bookmarks instead of the links toolbar. Shortening links for Twitter simply means reducing its length and at the same time, it still works correctly.
Use alternate extensions "hacks": Many country code extensions can be used to help form your company name by using the characters before and after the dot to form a shortened for similar sounding version of your name. They do this by showing your visitor an add before they are taken to another webpage.
This will receive an clicked-link events as they bubble up through the DOM. D) The Anchor Text they're using E) Links that are just discovered (a new, awesome feature in OSE) Using this information you can get a better idea of who is already linking to you in order to reach out and connect. Add Campaign name and any other parameter (optional): Add the name of the campaign to differentiate between the different creatives you are running with that specific owned media source. Instead it is simply a pointer that forwards traffic to a different address. Bitly assigns a unique key, in this case UOLsVl, for the URL that you supplied, saves it in their database, and returns the shorter URL that you can then use to access the same web page. The first condition allows this tag to just wait until it sees a link click event, which is the gtm.linkClick event that we were listening for above. When you check the box to enable tracking, we'll show the campaign title as it will appear in your Google Analytics account after the campaign is sent. Top-level domains of countries such as Libya (.ly), Samoa (.ws), Mongolia (.mn), Malaysia (.my) and Liechtenstein (.li) have been used as well as many others. 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. Personally, I use Hootsuite for all of my Twitter’ing so I don’t have the need to go out and shorten it separately.