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The Short List: How & Why to Shorten Your Links

6/1/2017

 

Jamie Schneider

Digital Strategist for the North American Division.

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We’ve all seen shortened URLs, but do you know why social media managers often shorten long links? Here is a quick “short list” of why and how to utilize link shorteners.

What:
URL shortening allows you to tighten up a long trackable URL to something short and easy to copy for social media posts.

In other words…

THIS:
https://www.adventistlearningcommunity.com/faith-reason-earth-history?&utm_campaign=FaithReasonEarth-2017&utm_source=Social-Media

BECOMES: https://goo.gl/ZaBXgL
#FaithReasonEarth example

Why:
  • Saves valuable space in your social media posts
  • Hides/masks UTM codes (trackable links)
  • Looks cleaner for marketing messages
  • Easy to share
  • Built-in tracking

More on tracking…
Many link shortening tools also track click-throughs (how many times the link has been clicked). Below you can see that this link is performing quite well. But for more in-depth analysis you’ll want to use UTM codes and Google Analytics.
Google URL Shortener

The Short List of URL Shorteners
There’s more, but these are our current favorites.
  • Bit.ly – Shorten, brand, & optimize links while tracking individual link analytics
  • Goo.gl – Provided by Google with built-in individual link analytics
    • UPDATE: google is ending this service as of March 2018
  • Rebrandly.com – Create & share short links with your domain name
  • Ow.ly – Provided by Hootsuite with built in analytics
  • Hiveam.com – Link management dashboard
  • Tr.im – Link management dashboard

You may also appreciate this free redirect checker. This is useful if you're curious about a shortened link and you don't trust the source. 
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5/4/2023 02:39:17 am

Shortening links are great. There are so many sites that you visit to shorten your links.


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