On Twitter and some instant-messaging services, there is a limit to the number of characters a message can carry – however, Twitter now shortens links automatically using its own URL shortening service, so there is no need to use a separate URL shortening service just to shorten URLs in a tweet. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. There are a lot of other link shorteners, many being novelty systems (like a link shortener that doesn’t really shorten but turns your URL into a Dickens quote, or one that makes your link look shady and nefarious, or one that churns out a hipster-phrased link) or ways to earn money for yourself or for charities through ads that appear before the user gets to the destination URL. Click error monitoring finds and logs any broken links for me. All you need to do is register the domain and make a few changes to the domain configuration. Finally, URL shortening sites provide detailed information on the clicks a link receives, which can be simpler than setting up an equally powerful server-side analytics engine, and unlike the latter, does not require any access to the server.
Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. External Filters: Defines filters for matching the external URLs of the link targets. Having a link shortener protects users from malicious sites that engage in spreading malware, phishing attacks, and other harmful activity. Wikipedia entries on TLDs typically include information on all these restrictions in the right sidebar of each TLD's entry. It is more focused on what happens once a visitor comes to your site.Facebook doesn’t offer an analytics feature that allows you to track clicks on links added to the Facebook wall. If you’re linking from one site using Analytics to another using Analytics Google could record that relationship.
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. Such scripts avoid many issues with shortening services, keep the domain name as part of the shortened link, and can be made private. Example: South Park Studios uses cart.mn to recreate, in a shortened form, the name of one of its most well known characters. Adding tracking directly to your site If you have added the Analytics tracking code directly to your site, you can copy and paste the script below into your own pages to set up Event tracking for outbound links.
Many sites that accept user-submitted content block links, however, to certain domains in order to cut down on spam, and for this reason, known URL redirection services are often themselves added to spam blacklists. For example, say you are using UTM codes to track website traffic. It wasn’t long before link shorteners quickly became more than mere link shorteners. Social media dashboard and notifications keeps me on top of what people are saying online about our brands.
Google URL Shortener: This shortener is straight from Google and will be viewed as a Goo(dot)gl. Is this part of a broader campaign to talk about a new product? You can use up to one source parameter and five sub ID parameters, each of which appear in your stats and conversion reports. For example, the URL "" can be shortened to "", and the URL "" can be shortened to "". Tip: Storing unique values in the appropriate parameters can drastically improve report performance. The boxes in the screenshot below should be empty. And if I was using Twitter.com to Tweet as I sometimes do, then I wouldn’t use one, I’d just let Twitter shorten it.