This website has been known to distribute spyware." TinyURL countered this problem by offering an option to view a link's destination before using a shortened URL. A name everyone instantly trusts when they see the URL. If you find someone who says he or she loves social media but doesn’t have a twitter account, then that person just likes social media. However, there are exceptions, so it's good to be safe.
According to Tonic Corporation, the registry for .to domains, it is "very serious about keeping domains spam free" and may remove URL shortening services from their registry if the service is abused.[21] In addition, "u.nu" made the following announcement upon closing operations: The last straw came on September 3, 2010, when the server was disconnected without notice by our hosting provider in response to reports of a number of links to child pornography sites. Some services such as Bitly and Goo.gl offer a simple feature of just adding a “+” character on the end of the shortened URL to get a preview of the destination of the shortened URL. All of these things should be clearly stipulated for tags you will be setting up: There are a variety of approaches you can take to naming tags, categories, labels, firing rules, and more. Having a link shortener protects users from malicious sites that engage in spreading malware, phishing attacks, and other harmful activity. It took me a while to realize all the features Bitly has to offer, and now it’s my favorite go-to page for when I need to share links with a little style. Will it be a similar message throughout several emails?
You can even make each link in the list a tny.im short link, for enhanced statistics! Therefore, as a Twitter marketer who needs to track link performance, you should use bit.ly.
Free users can choose between “go.clickmeter.com“ or “9nl.com“ as a domain name for their tracking link, while pro users can choose their own domain name. This is a nice extra feature if branding is important to you or if you want to make your link easier to memorize. Many extensions are available from companies you already use for domain registration — such as Hover. See the URL get method in the Reference document for more details.
But to be frank, who likes long stressful stuff these days? WordPress links have the structure they do, which is longer, because they’re meant to be permanent and portable. (And of course friendly to search engines.) Even if you weren’t using WordPress, the links contain no arbitrary IDs or other platform-specific implementation cruft so they should be trivial to serve from any system, even if you don’t use WordPress in the future. You can’t deny the usefulness of them with social media (especially Twitter) and the additional layer of analytics you can get on your links. If you notice a difference in how links perform against each other, you may decide to change how your emails are laid out, or you may start to pay more attention to which pictures or phrases you use. If you are using the newer Universal tracking please refer to the docs. It gives you yet another level of analytics that you can use to base your decisions on. Click the owl head in the upper-left corner of the screen. You can then receive an install callback to your servers, or alternatively request the original referring user via delegate callbacks.