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. However, Google Analytics can also provide you information about what users do when they come on your website, which banners or links they click the most, what product placements are working better on your website, which social media campaigns are bringing you more traffic, etc.
Some link shorteners allow custom domains, and some don’t. There are a lot of things that search engines never find because it's not posted on the web in a fashion that they can interpret. Launch and use Now that you're all set up, you're ready to use your new URL shortener. Get everything hooked up Some services, such as Bitly, let anyone create a vanity URL shortener.
If these names are duplicated it can affect your attribution data's integrity as installs from your owned media are attributed to integrated partners. Undo Undo Shorten links ! @sqrl_in 19 Mar 2010 More Google moves could bring fast Web apps closer - Thanks. Other Helpful Macros If you have sites that you frequently link out to or have partnerships with, you might want to roll up the click events by domain name. 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. For example, to expand , send the following request: GET For instance, you could issue the following curl command: curl '' If successful, the response will look like: { "kind": "urlshortener#url", "id": "", "longUrl": "", "status": "OK" } id is the short URL you passed in. longUrl is the long URL to which it expands. You can expect a 4 percent click-through rate (four clicks on your bit.ly link out of 100 total clicks on that blog or content link) for a well-crafted, valuable, interesting tweet.
Use an online search tool: One great tool for coming up with good domains for URL shorteners is Domai.nr, which lets you type in a full company name and the site suggests variations of it using numerous alternate extensions and other methods mentioned here and even links you to where you can purchase the domains (this is especially handy for country TLDs). If you copy and paste this script exactly as it appears here, your outbound clicks will appear in your Analytics Events reports with a Category of "outbound" and an Action of "click". (In the snippet, these are shown in bold.) You can use these values, or change them and define your own values. It will track the links, but you will still need to use the 'Link Tracker' utility provided by smallseotools.com to examine the links and verify them. This tool is especially useful if you want to detect click-fraud, see real-time click stats, and measure social media traffic. If your website has WordPress installed in a directory, your options might look like this, where our blog is installed in the “blog” directory: If your website is your WordPress installation, it might look like this: This works best when you choose a page slug that is short and mindful of keywords.
Maybe you find an interesting photo or song, or you want to refer people to another article someone else wrote. It lives outside their known universe of pages and links. I like twitter because it stands out uniquely with awesome features. By entering in a URL in the text field below, we will create a tiny URL that will not break in email postings and never expires. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better.