More meaningful: readers at least know the link goes to your site. Here at CoSchedule we bought cos.sc as our custom domain, and integrated it with Bit.ly. These special error resistant links also work great in spoken form (Siri changes links to all upper case). If you have stored your links in some document, you can copy/paste from there. For example, let’s say that you have a page on your blog where you sell an ebook.
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 a user renames a file, it breaks the links to the file. Go to Admin > Edit Posts, hover over the post link, look at the status bar, the number at the end of the URL is the post ID. Links shared on Twitter, including links shared in Direct Messages, will automatically be processed and shortened to an link. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better.
Paste your Google Universal Analytics Tracking ID. Backlinks are followed by Google's robot to check if it’s a valid link. On other such services, using a URL shortener can allow linking to web pages which would otherwise violate this constraint. Typically, it’s used for recording on-page JavaScript-controlled interactivity such as opening a widget or making an Ajax call.
Vanity Links You can make custom vanity links with any premium account. Each tracker represents a group of users that share a common source. Bitly declares that even if you have created a custom name in your shortened URL, they will not allow you to edit the web page that it points to you. This is achieved by using a redirect which links to the web page that has a long URL.
You can use click tracking tools, or Google analytics track clicks to external sites to check clicks coming from external links to your website and vice versa. Before we answer that question, lets first talk about why would you want to track links in Google Analytics? These special error resistant links also work great in spoken form (Siri changes links to all upper case). If you use an affiliate plugin to format your affiliate links into something like this then you will have to enable tracking of internal links as outbound links. 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. The Summary tab shows all clicks on different ow.ly and ht.ly links shared over the course of seven days. Tracking Out-going Links with Google Analytics With Google Analytics, you can also track outbound links on your website. Another reference to URL shortening was in 2001.[8] The first notable URL shortening service, TinyURL, was launched in 2002.