Thanks for the info! I am trying to start a website and while learning about and comparing all related products I came across a plan that includes shortening options. I shorten URLs regularly in my online communications and when creating digital documents to save space, but I am having trouble wrapping my head around how it will help my new eCommerce site. How do I know if I need such a tool? What type of businesses use them and in what situations (real life examples) are they useful? Any chance you all have any videos that offer these explanations and/or demonstrations of real life applications? TIA!
So they cut out the compressed long url and give you a small url which leads to: sometimes another url where you have to check captchas that lead to other url etc. and finally the real website or link you want. Sounds like "we are doing you a favor but first jump through these hoops."
We can't speak for other URL shorteners, but with Rebrandly there's no extra pages or captchas or anything like that. Clicking on a branded link gives you the exact same reaction as clicking on the destination URL itself - you're simply brought straight to the destination, as intended 😊
Yes, they are. But it is strongly recommended NOT to use generic URL shorteners. In fact, to fully respect the AdWords guidelines your ads should have the same domain name in the visible link and in the effective destination URL. This means that you must show in the ad the same link that will redirect. In case of a generic URL shortener, you need to show the short URL that is generic and not trusted by Google and the final user. That is why you should always use a branded URL shortener like Rebrandly. Rebrandly is the only tool that let you use your main (.com) domain name (paid feature) to create short URLs. Using branded short URLs is a great plus since you can include a call to action in the URL (productname.com/click-here) and you can control the destination from the Rebrandly dashboard without changing the Google ad, that needs to be approved every time! Hope this is useful!
I have heard the RU-vidr should shorten there video link because your rival might try to use paid disklike on there video so the paid liking website needs full link url to work is it true
Great question! There are many benefits to why you should shorten a link. Take Twitter for example. You are only allowed a certain amount of characters per tweet, so by shortening your links, they won't take up too much space. Another similar example is in SMS marketing that contains links, they are almost always shortened. Gather click data is another benefit. Rebrandly (and some of the other URL shortening tools out there) will give you important stats of how your links perform such as; number of clicks, time and date, device types and browsers used, location and language, etc. Find out more information on this topic here: Rebrandly.blog/URL-shortener
Hi there! For this video we decided to do a breakdown of the history of URL shorteners, what they are, and their relation to branded links. Hope that helps! 😊
