Facebook has this new colored status background feature that works when your status is short and straight to the point. This point was underscored a few days ago when a popular one, tr.im, announced they were going to shut down at the end of the year.
For example, a bad campaign name would be "Winter 2009 email" because email is the medium, and it restricts your ability to reuse the same campaign name for other mediums. Launch and use Now that you're all set up, you're ready to use your new URL shortener. According to Tonic Corporation, the registry for .to domains, it is "very serious about keeping domains spam free" and may remove URL shortening services from their registry if the service is abused.[21] In addition, "u.nu" made the following announcement upon closing operations: The last straw came on September 3, 2010, when the server was disconnected without notice by our hosting provider in response to reports of a number of links to child pornography sites. Social media dashboard and notifications keeps me on top of what people are saying online about our brands. Fortunately, we can gather outbound link details ourselves.
Once you’ve pressed this, you’ll be brought to the URL Forwarding page. It's also important to note that some countries only allow registrations on what's call the third level — .co.uk for example. As an example, their tracking system could have a session ID macro that you use to replace "CLICKID", and another macro for a unique user hash that you use to replace "UNIQUEVALUE".
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. Advantages of Using Your Own Domain URLs: Promote your site (branding): when people retweet, your domain will fly around. Understand who my readers are, which books are getting clicks and purchases and which marketing channel is working best. Links shared on Twitter, including links shared in Direct Messages, will automatically be processed and shortened to an link.
Please note: anyone with a t.co shortened link will be able to navigate to the destination URL. If you haven’t yet, upgrade from classic to Universal Google Analytics. With the URL Shortener API you can write applications that use simple HTTP methods to create, inspect, and manage goo.gl short links from desktop, mobile, or web. More meaningful: readers at least know the link goes to your site. Tracking links in Google Analytics using UTM Source Google Analytics has this amazing feature called custom campaigns. These extensions are easily obtained and generic enough for almost any organization to use. If you send announcement emails outside the normal flow of newsletters or ads, this might be labeled "announcement". This is key to search engine optimization as it ensures that search engine spiders won't think the shortener URL is the "real" URL to the page. Undo Undo Shorten URL @ShortenURL 5 Jun 2011 More Statistics for Sunday, June 5, 2011 Thanks.