More » Goo.gl Here’s Google’s very own URL shortener, which is a popular choice that’s useful for just getting the job done as quickly as possible. Undo Undo Shorten URL @ShortenURL 3 Jul 2011 More Statistics for Sunday, July 3, 2011 Thanks. For example, if you send out weekly newsletters, this might be "newsletter". If you're willing to pay, consider Pretty Link Pro or these low cost solutions on Code Canyon. 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.
Click the input box under “Update Status” and paste the copied short URL into the box. If you’re logged in you can also get the shortlink for any page on WordPress.com, there’s a link under the “Blog Info” menu in your admin bar. Unless you want to track URLs, you have no need to run to an outside website in order to make your URLs smaller, Twitter only counts links for a certain number of characters now. This tells you whether it’s working and resulting in actual page views and ticket sales—and whether that money or time is being well spent.
Autotrack uses events to track outbound link clicks and sets the event label to the link's URL. If you’re not tracking your links, you’re probably leaving tons of money on the table, spending more than you can afford, and struggling to keep up with dozens of online marketing campaigns. By tracking links, you can greatly improve your website by getting rid of items that don’t work and optimizing the ones that do.
Example: Nissan uses nssn.co Use initials: This tip works for personal or organization URL shorteners. Check Validation: Also optional, but this just makes sure the user “really” clicked on the link. Sometimes a short URL is useful simply to give someone over a telephone conversation for a one-off access or file download, and no longer needed within a couple of minutes.
When a visitor clicks on your tracking link, LinkTrackr places a cookie on the user’s computer, as well as generate a unique Click Tracking ID or CTID. 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. Simply enter your long URL and click the Shorten button. Facebook automatically detects the link and parses the page description and an image from the original page. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. But the details of how to do this are well out of the scope of this article. Smartphone users now prefer bezel-less phones to large devices with not so good/large screen.