Personally, I use Hootsuite for all of my Twitter’ing so I don’t have the need to go out and shorten it separately. Such URLs are difficult to memorize, type-out or distribute.
Abbreviate or shorten: Use common abbreviations to make things shorter or just chop off some letters of your name. When you schedule a link Tweet via Hootsuite, you can shorten the link to an owl.ly link. owl.ly/0a0b0c0 Google: As always, Google has something for you too. 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.
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You should see a new tag pop up telling you that it tracked the email link click event: Once you’ve confirmed the tag works, the next step is to save a new version and publish everything. So understanding how users are interacting with those external links can be helpful. 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. Add password protection to your links to control who has access. If it's not available, you'll need to locate a registrar who handles the domain extension in question. Affiliate Marketing with Your Link Tracker Our link tracker software works perfectly for affiliates too!
Bitly also allows you to customize the actual shortened link (if your customization is still available). Masking means that your affiliate URL never becomes visible in a browser address bar. • A very simple method if you have your own website is to create a blank html page and paste the following code into the blank page (substituting your affiliate URL). Then name the html page something that makes sense for the application such as . Use custom domain URL shortening to gain a higher level of indexing on Google. Other times it may be followed by a short readable name.