In most cases, this will be the same as the URL you provided. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. You may still want to track your URLs to see how well your tweets are performing. This will allow you to plan your content strategy accordingly. In order to address the fear of linkrot happening when a link shortening service shuts down, the Internet Archive started the 301 Works project in an attempt to preserve the link shortening databases should participating services shut down. Or you can block links to your site from these sites.
A Microsoft Security Brief recommends the creation of short-lived URLs, but for reasons explicitly of security rather than convenience.[6] History[edit] An early reference is US Patent 6957224, which describes ...a system, method and computer program product for providing links to remotely located information in a network of remotely connected computers. You don’t have to be a major corporation to set up a custom short name domain to create custom short links. Link Tracking Features Shell shortcuts include heuristic link tracking that uses a tree search algorithm to find a match for a moved link source.
More » AdF.ly AdF.ly takes an interesting approach to link shortening by offering its users the opportunity to earn money by using its service. For example, "4" can be used for the "for" sound in a name. There are no lines at the door and nobody is frustrated.” — Jeffrey Lesan, CMO, SnowGlobe “We have been using Eventbrite to administer ticketing for the event since 2013. Another operational limitation of URL shortening services is that browsers do not resend POST bodies when a redirect is encountered.
Password Protection With a Personal or Professional account, you can password protect your tracking links. Once the address is copied, paste that address into another program by clicking a blank field and pressing Ctrl+V or Cmd+V. This is achieved by using a redirect which links to the web page that has a long URL.
If you look at an article in Wikipedia, you are bound to come across backlinks. Undo Undo Shorten links ! @sqrl_in 19 Mar 2010 More Google moves could bring fast Web apps closer | Deep Tech - CNET News - Thanks. Spending too much money on AdWords, FaceBook ads and banner ads, but still can’t turn a profit? Because we’re creating an event to track clicks on a specific type of link! In this example, we’re creating tag that tracks any click on an email address. WP.me is spam-free, because we are constantly monitoring and removing spam from WP.com. You can always view clicks over a period of 24 hours, a month, and a custom date range. Anyone using the link will need to know the password to proceed to its final destination.