When we shorten a link, it appears like so: Our URLs are shortened and we can still use the tracking features in Bit.ly, but instead of our readers seeing Bit.ly in the shortened links, they see our custom domain. Browse our list for inspiration: You'll likely get some great ideas just look at what others have done! Click Download to export and save this list of contacts, or click each contact to view their activity for this campaign. When you create menu items on your website, you are creating internal links to the item pages. Dead simple to manage multiple custom domains and multiple clients from a single account Consistent branding impression.
Using a custom domain with your link shortening service is a way to confront the spam and distrust issue. If you are using the newer Universal tracking please refer to the docs. How often do you get that kind of data from printed marketing? Sharing toolbar Make your short links easy to share by displaying a toolbar on them. For example, the URL "" can be shortened to "", and the URL "" can be shortened to "". Our favorite is YOURLS, but Lessn More is another good free option.
Techniques[edit] In URL shortening, every long URL is associated with a unique key, which is the part after its top-level domain name. Failure to predict such problems with URL shorteners and investment in URL shortening companies may reflect a lack of due diligence.[26] Blocking and banning[edit] Some websites prevent short, redirected URLs from being posted. Last clicked The most recent date and time someone clicked a tracked link in your campaign. With that said, if you do need to track your URLs, or you want alternative ways to post there are plenty of ways to do it: Bit.ly: Probably the most popular URL shortener for Twitter because it was one of the first to let you track your tiny URLs.
Click the name of the report you want to work with. Check Validation: Also optional, but this just makes sure the user “really” clicked on the link.
To double check, replicate the campaign and look at the tracking options you selected. You can also find out how many clicks your particular bit.ly link got compared to the total clicks on the long link. Check Enable OneLink to convert the custom tracking link to OneLink, while retaining all the added parameters to the link. It's also important to note that some countries only allow registrations on what's call the third level — .co.uk for example. On other such services, using a URL shortener can allow linking to web pages which would otherwise violate this constraint. Once you are set, you can now view cool stats and detailed charts of your links (e.g. unique and non-unique clicks). In order for this to be enabled, you must integrate with App Indexing for Android and iOS. The Summary tab shows all clicks on different ow.ly and ht.ly links shared over the course of seven days. Tinyarro.ws, and qoiob.com use Unicode characters to achieve the shortest URLs possible, since more condensed URLs are possible with a given number of characters compared to those using a standard Latin alphabet.[citation needed] Services may record inbound statistics, which may be viewed publicly by others.[5] Expiry and time-limited services[edit] Many providers of shortened URLs claim that they will "never expire" (there is always the implied small print: so long as we do not decide to discontinue this service—there is no contract to be breached by a free service, regardless of "promises"—and remain in business). Here’s a video tutorial on URL forwarding, and below are the two steps to setting up URL forwarding to your LinkedIn profile: 1. The downside of this approach, however, is that if a user visits your shortened domain without a directory path on the end, they will be directed to a Bitly branded page.