Registering a short URL[edit] Some websites create short links to make sharing links via instant messaging easier, and to make it cheaper to send them via SMS. But if all the links to you use a shorter version, that sort of defeats the point! The shortest possible long-term URLs were generated by NanoURL from December 2009 until about 2011, associated with the top-level .to (Tonga) domain, in the form , where xxxx represents a sequence of random numbers and letters.[15] On 14 December 2009 Google announced a service called Google URL Shortener at goo.gl, which originally was only available for use through Google products (such as Google Toolbar and FeedBurner) and extensions for Google Chrome.[17] On 21 December 2009, Google introduced a YouTube URL Shortener, youtu.be.[18] From September 2010 Google URL Shortener became available via a direct interface.
Some services such as Bitly and Goo.gl offer a simple feature of just adding a “+” character on the end of the shortened URL to get a preview of the destination of the shortened URL. 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.
If you are using something else, then please share that in the comments below.Track outbound links Find out when users click a link to leave your site. If you are including shortened URLs in a blog or online article, obviously you would like some reassurances that the link will continue to be valid for a long time. Click the owl head in the upper-left corner of the screen.
Tag Type: Select either “Universal Analytics” or “Classic Analytics”, depending on whichever you are using. Twitter even lets you schedule Tweets now ... sort of. Note that requests containing JSON content bodies must be accompanied by a Content-Type: application/json request header.
Rename, backup, and restore operations preserve object IDs. A few well-known websites have set up their own URL shortening services for their own use – for example, Twitter with t.co, and Google with goo.gl. Most URL shortening services offer basic analytic data that tracks the total number of clicks, the time of the click and the country or territory location of the person who clicked the link. To see an example implementation from Demos & Tool, check out the source code.This tactic was actually shown to me by Jeremiah Smith (my brother) over at SimpleTiger. Simply enter your long URL and click the Shorten button. 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). Here is what the firing rules look like for this tag:Event Equals gtm.linkClick: You will want to use this rule for ANY and ALL link click events. OLE linking includes the same heuristic link tracking. 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". It's also important to note that some countries only allow registrations on what's call the third level — .co.uk for example. We can also store your Google Analytics ID to track visits to your campaign pages and hosted campaign archive, so you can see traffic to these pages in your Google Analytics account. Get everything hooked up Some services, such as Bitly, let anyone create a vanity URL shortener.