In my last post, I wrote about the benefits of using YOURLS, a self-hosted link-shortening service. I’m finding that YOURLS is great, but it’s not perfect. Some of the issues I have experience are part of what you get using most URL shortener services. Some of the downsides of using link shorteners are: Google Analytics doesn’t […]
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YOURLS URL Shortener
I was having trouble finding the right URL shortening service. My requests for shortening were not too picky. I wanted two simple features: Good statistics that are visible only to administrators Edit the long URLs after generating shortened links …but not one service has both features: http://sn.im has editable URLs, a bookmarklet, but no stats. Oh, and […]
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Export Bit.ly Link Data as CSV
Finally, a way to download Bit.ly link data as a CSV. Bit.ly is one of the most popular link shortening services, and rightly so: it is stable, easy to use, and has pretty looking statistics. One thing Bit.ly does not do is export data. There is simple no other Bit.ly exporter out there. The Bit.ly […]
This has been done many times by others, but just a quick tip on how to add or remove www. from your website’s address. This is helpful for URL canonicalization and user experience consistency. You can also achieve SEO-friendly canonicalization using rel=”canonical”. Oh boy, I’m getting too technical 🙂 Here’s the juicy part: Add the […]