URL shorteners like bit.ly, goo.gl, or t.co are ubiquitous on today’s Web and serve a purpose, which, as the title suggests, is to shorten URLs. However, there is a lot more that URL shorteners can do. For example, learn how to create bit.ly bundles, use goo.gl to generate QR codes that link to anything on the web, see how Twitter automatically shortens URLs using t.co, and discover valuable analytic data on who is clicking on and sharing your links.
4. Agenda
• Discover what URL Shorteners are.
• Use goo.gl to generate QR codes.
• Learn how to create bit.ly bundles.
• Understand why Twitter automatically
shortens URLs using t.co.
• Realize valuable analytic data on who is
clicking on and sharing your links.
5. URL stands for uniform resource
locator and it essentially links to
resources on the Web.
7. The path to the resource on the server. Sometimes there will
be a query string that contains data to be processed.
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ope/russia-putin/index.html?hpt=wo_c2