WP.me is spam-free, because we are constantly monitoring and removing spam from WP.com. This has been risky in the past because errors can result whenever users manually enter links. Undo Undo URL Shortener @URL_Shorteners_ 20 Dec 2012 More Anonymous hackers Twitter count was suspended then reinstated. Reporting breaks down by person, location, and device type.
But the webmaster of these sites must not give blanket permission to every website that exists on the internet to create links to it. 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". You publicize this page through twitter, facebook, various banner placement on your website, email newsletter, etc. If it’s an outbound link, we’ll cancel the click event and initiate Analytics event tracking.
It is a legitimate concern that many existing URL shortening services may not have a sustainable business model in the long term.[12] In late 2009, the Internet Archive started the "301 Works" projects,[25] together with twenty collaborating companies (initially), whose short URLs will be preserved by the project.[12] The URL shortening service ur1.ca provides its entire database as a file download, so if its website stops working, other websites may be able to provide ways to correct broken links to URLs shortened with its service. TinyURL tries to disable spam-related links from redirecting.[30] ZoneAlarm, however, has warned its users: "TinyURL may be unsafe. Use A Custom Domain With Link Shorteners With services like Domainr and IWantMyName, you can easily get a custom domain to use with link shorteners.
If you are using the newer Universal tracking please refer to the docs. With TinyURL, you can also make a smaller URL that will work for any page on your site.
But we’re then moving away from on-site Analytics into more dubious territory; Google wouldn’t necessarily want to share that data. Is there more than one type of Google Analytics tracking on your links? If you combine MailChimp's Google Analytics tracking with custom UTM tracking, this could skew results in reports. When you are using HootSuite, you can shorten any URL to an ow.ly or ht.ly link. Before we go any further, you must upgrade to Universal Analytics. Type any message that you want to add to the link into the text input field. Note: If the address bar is not visible, try scrolling up using your finger. Without tracking those metrics, how do you know which method is working the best?