If you can't find a link here, try the Wikipedia list of TLDs. Google which is a brilliant search engine decided to examine these numerous links and when its crawler discovered that the links were spam links it blacklisted the site and sent it into oblivion.
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. Undo Herbert Bay, Entrepreneur and Computer Vision guy Answered 143w ago The word "best" is very relative and depends on your needs. One of the most popular link shorteners is Bit.ly, and their use of the .ly domain has been a problem for some. Type or paste the full URL of the link that you want to add to your Facebook wall into the input field.
What was especially interesting for me was seeing how these tracking links indicate people sharing the event with their networks, and the resulting ticket sales. 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. Upgrade to a premium account for more advanced features. The service imports all of your short URLs and stores them and will also take over your URL shortening domain if you decide to close it, ensuring links posted throughout the Internet continue to work.Bit.ly vs Goo.gl — Best Way to Shorten URLs In the ever-growing age of social media, Facebook and Twitter have provided a great platform for the business firms to expand and promote their products online. Undo Undo Shorten links ! @sqrl_in 19 Mar 2010 More Google moves could bring fast Web apps closer - Thanks. This article is part of our HasOffers Basics series.
Some shortening services, such as goo.gl, tinyurl.com, and bit.ly can generate URLs that are human-readable, although the resulting strings are longer than those generated by a length-optimized service. I have been using this tool myself for the past half year and have to say it’s the most advanced and easiest tool to use for tracking your website actions. A real-time dashboard with traffic analytics and referrer data shows how many people shared and clicked your links. bit.ly is a free service. You can modify these in the ga call if necessary (lines 24 to 26).
If done properly you should have "" on the above box. The link service uses cookies to recognize your computer and display statistics for your link.Contents Sailthru can track the clicks of links in your emails, and attribute those clicks back to the unique customer. Improper link formatting and other issues can cause problems with click tracking. So instead of seeing “bit.ly” or “goo.gl” links that might lead you anywhere, these websites have set up their own custom short domain name. Join 250,000 in-the-know marketers and get the latest marketing tips, tactics, and news right in your inbox. Save time with our seamless integrations with over 100+ tools you already use, like Facebook, Mailchimp, and Salesforce. The need for this came about when one of our Healthcare Marketing clients needed to track the actual impact their PDFs were having on their organic search volume, and traffic in general. Most Twitter clients like YoruFukurou will shorten long URLs for you, but for other occasions when you need to shorten URLs, there’s Bitly.com.