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. If you need to change your URL on your social network page, it's easy to do.) Bitly Bitly is at the top of the URL shortening game. For consistency, use your URL shortener whenever possible, rather than mixing your own custom domain with other generic ones.
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TinyURL tries to disable spam-related links from redirecting.[30] ZoneAlarm, however, has warned its users: "TinyURL may be unsafe. 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. Some link shorteners allow custom domains, and some don’t. Undo Undo URL Shortener @URL_Shorteners_ 5 Dec 2012 More Have you voted on changes?
Don’t worry so much about the whole base64 thing though. Once you have made these modifications, click on APPLY for each and then finally CREATE. With Bitly, you can track how many clicks your shortened links receive, plus bookmark and organize your links on your own personalized Bitly dashboard. If the http protocol isn’t visible in the navigation bar, copy and paste the link and it should appear.
Just keep in mind that there are a couple more characters in this option as compared to others like Bit.ly, Goo.gl and Ow.ly, so it's not exactly the shortest URL shortener.Overview The Google URL Shortener at goo.gl is a service that takes long URLs and squeezes them into fewer characters to make a link that is easier to share, tweet, or email to friends. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. If hosted elsewhere, in the ‘URL to the YOURLS API’ field enter ‘’. Undo Undo Shorten URL @ShortenURL 20 May 2011 More Revision 361: Increased max-version Thanks. Include retargeting pixels in my links to build a fan list. Google Analytics does not track outbound links by default. Thus, short URLs may be more convenient for websites or hard copy publications (e.g. a printed magazine or a book), the latter often requiring that very long strings be broken into multiple lines (as is the case with some e-mail software or internet forums) or truncated. When the user leaves your website and goes to the eventbrite.com domain, Google Analytics assigns them a new client ID. If you’d like to override the default value of email for utm_medium or add new utm parameters to your links, then go to the Advance tab of your template/campaign. Background You may already know that Eventbrite allows you to put a Google Analytics tracking tag on their pages so you can collect some data. That's better than nothing but, as you may have discovered, Google Analytics doesn't automatically recognise that the user on your website is the same as the person on Eventbrite. When users go to Eventbrite's domain, Google Analytics gives them new Client IDs and starts a new session. Remember: Even though you’re good at marketing your event, still, it doesn’t matter how many people you drive to your event page if only a small percentage of them buy a ticket. This can be added to existing JavaScript files or in a script block as long as it’s loaded somewhere within the HTML body (ideally, just before the closing tag). jQuery (or your alternative) must be loaded first although the Google Analytics tracking code can appear anywhere on the page. /* Track outbound links in Google Analytics */ (function($) { "use strict"; // current page host var baseURI = window.location.host; // click event on body $("body").on("click", function(e) { // abandon if link already aborted or analytics is not available if (e.isDefaultPrevented() || typeof ga !== "function") return; // abandon if no active link or link within domain var link = $(e.target).closest("a"); if (link.length != 1 || baseURI == link[0].host) return; // cancel event and record outbound link e.preventDefault(); var href = link[0].href; ga('send', { 'hitType': 'event', 'eventCategory': 'outbound', 'eventAction': 'link', 'eventLabel': href, 'hitCallback': loadPage }); // redirect after one second if recording takes too long setTimeout(loadPage, 1000); // redirect to outbound page function loadPage() { document.location = href; } }); })(jQuery); // pass another library here if required The event is recorded with the category name ‘outbound’, action name ‘link’ and the value set to the URL of the outbound page. This UA code can be found next to your website’s profile in Google Analytics Dashboard. There is no way to stop affiliates from adding their own custom payout on click using this parameter.