At that time, Google will completely disable the URL shortener and all associated data will be lost. This doesn’t change the way the PDF document is displayed or downloaded by your users.
But as Dave Winer articulated, there’s no reason we shouldn’t have a shortener ourselves, and here we are. 🙂 People are already using it. If a member uses a URL and then changes it, that URL will be unavailable for use by other members for six months. Undo Undo Shorten URL @ShortenURL 20 May 2011 More Revision 361: Increased max-version Thanks.
OLE linking includes the same heuristic link tracking. This is it. tinyurl.com/0a0b0c0 Buffer: In order to shorten your URLs, you need to schedule your posts through Buffer who will put your posts in a queue and schedule them to go out at the times you preset. HootSuite also allows you to view a dashboard that tracks clicks for each shortened link shared in the management system. A friendly URL may be desired for messaging technologies that limit the number of characters in a message (for example SMS), for reducing the amount of typing required if the reader is copying a URL from a print source, for making it easier for a person to remember, or for the intention of a permalink. By doing this, they can centralize all their landing pages in one tracking application, and make changes instantly without having to go back to the websites or pages. There are no real extra features or services, so this is good choice if you just want to get the job done as fast and as smoothly as possible without all the extra fluff like signing in and CAPTCHAs and other stuff.
Privacy and security[edit] A short URL obscures the target address and can be used to redirect to an unexpected site. The unknown levels will be shown as ‘unknown’ in your dashboard when there is data for other sublevels.
Clicked Number of recipients who clicked any tracked link. This will help you give more time-oriented outreach to people who have recently pointed to your resources, these are the most apt to engage. Click the owl head in the upper-left corner of the screen. One of the most popular link shorteners is Bit.ly, and their use of the .ly domain has been a problem for some. Another simple one, you just paste it in and go. goo.gl/0a0b0c0 Then there are the ones that people hook up to autofeed into their Twitter accounts, and most of those come with their own shorteners. Build trust & increase click rate: people tend to click on the links that they trust rather than unknown URLs (ie. bit.ly/buSzh might be a spam link). Browse our list for inspiration: You'll likely get some great ideas just look at what others have done! You may still want to track your URLs to see how well your tweets are performing.