Example: South Park Studios uses cart.mn to recreate, in a shortened form, the name of one of its most well known characters. You can also get a general overview of both open and click statistics from the Campaigns page in your account.
Click the name of the report you want to work with. These parameters are also stored by HasOffers and can be passed in affiliate conversion links via HasOffers macros. Enabling this setting records and displays the following additional link information: URL: Displays the URL that will be tracked.
Whatever the case, the answer seems to be using a link shortener. TinyURL was used by early bloggers before many of these other services were around. The link on your desktop will change accordingly to the new location of the file on the file server. Every access requires more requests (at least one more DNS lookup, though it may be cached, and one more HTTP/HTTPS request), thereby increasing latency, the time taken to access the page, and also the risk of failure, since the shortening service may become unavailable.
On 14 August 2009 WordPress announced the wp.me URL shortener for use when referring to any WordPress.com blog post.[11] In November 2009, shortened links on bit.ly were accessed 2. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better.
In April 2009, TinyURL was reported to be blocked in Saudi Arabia.[27] Yahoo! Some websites prevent short, redirected URLs from being posted. Simply add one of those two services before your URL—j.mp/—and you'll quickly redirect to a page with the shortened version of your link ready to be copied or posted to a social network. The Google URL Shortener (Goo.gl), the Bitly URL shortening service and the Tiny URL service all offer basic click stats. The service includes all the custom bit.ly features plus real-time information about the page you are “shrinking.” You can also track clicks to the page and how many times that page was shared and by how many people. You can shorten a link right away, although you’ll need to enter a CAPTCHA code. This article is part of our HasOffers Basics series. Another operational limitation of URL shortening services is that browsers do not resend POST bodies when a redirect is encountered.