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. Some folks might already be fully familiar with the process of URL shortening, providing a shorter and sometimes more memorable URL that is easier for someone to type out or include in an email or other short message. You should add this script in your page header, but not within the basic Analytics tracking code snippet.
You should use the one that’s right for your use case, but below is what I typically use on this site. You can even make each link in the list a tny.im short link, for enhanced statistics! 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.
It’s also popular so a lot of people recognize that a Bitly link is a shortened link and don’t automatically think it’s spam. For example, .in, the TLD for India, is good for names ending in the "en" or "in" sound. .es, Spain's TLD, is good for plural names ending in "-es". Given the choice between spending time and money to find a different home, or just giving up, the latter won out.[22] Google's url-shortener discussion group has frequently included messages from frustrated users reporting that specific shortened URLs have been disabled after they were reported as spam.[23] A study in May 2012 showed that 61% of URL shorteners had shut down (614 of 1002).[24] The most common cause cited was abuse by spammers. After using the backlink check tool you can use this tool to further analyze the value of each individual link.
Technically not part of any protocol, it is simply a convention standing for world wide web. Undo Undo URL Shortener @URL_Shorteners_ 6 Dec 2012 More RT : Our has been extended til Friday! You can modify these in the ga call if necessary (lines 24 to 26).
If you navigate to a previously claimed URL, you may see a page that reads Profile Not Found. But now I have the option to make special mistake-proof short links for print purposes. Masking means that your affiliate URL never becomes visible in a browser address bar. • A very simple method if you have your own website is to create a blank html page and paste the following code into the blank page (substituting your affiliate URL). Then name the html page something that makes sense for the application such as . This way they can use shortened URLs but still give people confidence about where the link will lead.