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). With that said, if you do need to track your URLs, or you want alternative ways to post there are plenty of ways to do it: Bit.ly: Probably the most popular URL shortener for Twitter because it was one of the first to let you track your tiny URLs.
We can detect whether a link will open a page on a domain which is different to ours. Undo Undo URL Shortener @URL_Shorteners_ 14 Dec 2012 More Thanks. 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.
You may also want to consider joining 301works, a free service from the Internet Archive that works to create a database of all shortened URL mappings. Publish one custom branded short link on my business card, then keep the destination URL updated so that people are always taken to my latest blog post when they visit. WordPress links have the structure they do, which is longer, because they’re meant to be permanent and portable. (And of course friendly to search engines.) Even if you weren’t using WordPress, the links contain no arbitrary IDs or other platform-specific implementation cruft so they should be trivial to serve from any system, even if you don’t use WordPress in the future. My third choice, which was once my first choice, is Bitly.
The shortcuts are intended to be permanent and cannot be changed once they are created. I can look at these results and know that 283 tickets sold from an invitation I sent out via MailChimp, 12 tickets sold just from posting the event on Yelp, and 24 tickets sold from our blog post about the event. 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.
Additionally, if the file is moved outside the domain or within a workgroup, it is found. The permalinks you use in WordPress can be ideally created to be as short as possible. Undo Undo Shorten URL @ShortenURL 20 May 2011 More Revision 360: x Refactored Thanks. Are you struggling to market your website, product or service? Put QR codes on products for our retail customers to scan. To send the results to other people, enter their email addresses in the CC field. Personally, I use Hootsuite for all of my Twitter’ing so I don’t have the need to go out and shorten it separately. Get app deep links with the URL Shortener The URL Shortener also offers the capability of having short links deep link to content in your mobile apps. The service includes all the custom bit.ly features plus real-time information about the page you are “shrinking.” You can also track clicks to the page and how many times that page was shared and by how many people. Click the owl head in the upper-left corner of the screen. Note that requests containing JSON content bodies must be accompanied by a Content-Type: application/json request header. Undo Undo Shorten URL @ShortenURL 3 Jul 2011 More Statistics for Sunday, July 3, 2011 Thanks.